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Pune blast:Sleuths find footprints of Headey,breakthrough soon
Pune, Feb 17 (PTI) Investigators have found footprints of
US terror suspect David Headley in the Pune blast and hope to
get a breakthrough "very soon" following intensive questioning
of some people, mostly locals.
Highly placed sources Wednesday said that the plan of
exploding the high-intensity bomb at the German Bakery was
executed by some local terror modules with help from outside
Maharashtra.
Sleuths have fanned out to a few places outside the
state, including Bangalore, to question some people and they
were expecting a breakthrough "very soon".
"Investigation is on right track. More or less we have
identified the people behind the blast. It has some links with
Headley's visit to Pune," a senior official said.
Headley had in 2008-2009 twice visited the Osho Ashram
located near the German Bakery in Koregaon Park. The terror
attack at the famous eatery last Saturday left 11 persons dead
and injured over 50. The Pakistani-American is currently in US
custody in connection with the Mumbai terror attack.
According to the investigators, Headley had moved to
Pune from Goa to carry out a recee of the area around Koregaon
Park. The area is also home to a Jewish prayer house.
A CCTV footage of the area outside the Bakery has thrown
no major leads for investigators as a clear coverage of the
area outside was available only for the time around 1830
hours--before the attack-- when two men were seen coming from
opposite directions and exchanging greetings for some 10
seconds after which they left.
Police also questioned around 30 people who had a
history of association with banned SIMI organisation but have
drawn a blank so far, the sources said.
They said records of around 1.10 lakh calls from all the
cell towers around the scene of incident were being examined
by the techincal teams of security agencies.
The explosive material -- RDX and Ammonium Nitrate --
did not bear the signature of earlier blasts, including at
Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Delhi and the "packing" of explosive
material is of such a high quality that even forensic experts
have not been able to pick a single clue about its timer.
The toll in the blast that rocked the Pune eatery rose
to 11 after 21-year-old Delhi youth Aditya Mehta succumbed to
his injuries last night. PTI ACB
US terror suspect David Headley in the Pune blast and hope to
get a breakthrough "very soon" following intensive questioning
of some people, mostly locals.
Highly placed sources Wednesday said that the plan of
exploding the high-intensity bomb at the German Bakery was
executed by some local terror modules with help from outside
Maharashtra.
Sleuths have fanned out to a few places outside the
state, including Bangalore, to question some people and they
were expecting a breakthrough "very soon".
"Investigation is on right track. More or less we have
identified the people behind the blast. It has some links with
Headley's visit to Pune," a senior official said.
Headley had in 2008-2009 twice visited the Osho Ashram
located near the German Bakery in Koregaon Park. The terror
attack at the famous eatery last Saturday left 11 persons dead
and injured over 50. The Pakistani-American is currently in US
custody in connection with the Mumbai terror attack.
According to the investigators, Headley had moved to
Pune from Goa to carry out a recee of the area around Koregaon
Park. The area is also home to a Jewish prayer house.
A CCTV footage of the area outside the Bakery has thrown
no major leads for investigators as a clear coverage of the
area outside was available only for the time around 1830
hours--before the attack-- when two men were seen coming from
opposite directions and exchanging greetings for some 10
seconds after which they left.
Police also questioned around 30 people who had a
history of association with banned SIMI organisation but have
drawn a blank so far, the sources said.
They said records of around 1.10 lakh calls from all the
cell towers around the scene of incident were being examined
by the techincal teams of security agencies.
The explosive material -- RDX and Ammonium Nitrate --
did not bear the signature of earlier blasts, including at
Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Delhi and the "packing" of explosive
material is of such a high quality that even forensic experts
have not been able to pick a single clue about its timer.
The toll in the blast that rocked the Pune eatery rose
to 11 after 21-year-old Delhi youth Aditya Mehta succumbed to
his injuries last night. PTI ACB
