Maharashtra's Anti Terrorism Squad, probing the July 13 triple blasts here, has not found any leads after 'extensive' questioning of two engineering students and their friend.
Maharashtra's Anti Terrorism Squad, probing the July 13 triple blasts here, has not found any leads after 'extensive' questioning of two engineering students and their friend who were arrested recently, police sources said.
Qamar-E-Alam (19) and Abdul Wahab (20), who hail from Darbanga district of Bihar, were picked from their engineering college at Lalru Mohali in Punjab on January 1 and booked in a forgery case after they were found to be possessing over 10 SIM cards procured using fake documents, police sources said.
Subsequently, their aide Shahejahan (20) was also arrested in a similar case, sources said.
"The three were extensively questioned with regard to the blasts but nothing important has come out,"an ATS source said.
Qamar's father Shakir Hussain, a driver by profession in Mumbai, told PTI, "I am hearing that my son has been picked by Mumbai ATS but police did not inform me anything as of now. I don't know where he is and I'am worried."
"My son was good at studies and I wanted him to study engineering. He studied upto XII in Mumbai. I tried several colleges here but they wanted huge donations. But in Punjab, I had to pay only Rs one lakh for my son's college admission," Hussain said adding that his son is very good at studies and he would not indulge in any illegal activities.
Mohammed Abdul Umar(66), father of another accused Wahab who was picked up by the ATS told PTI from Bihar over phone, "We do not know why police picked up my son and where they have kept him. We were not intimated about it. I am sure my son was picked by mistake and he would be released soon."
Qamar and Wahab's friend Mohammed Ashraf was also questioned but was later let off.
Ashraf told PTI from Punjab, "The police who claimed to be Mumbai ATS officials asked about our background and studies. Then they took away Qamar and Wahab."
A powerful IED blasts rocked the bustling Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar areas in Mumbai within a span of 30 minutes on July 13, killing 27 and wounding many.
A breakthrough has eluded the Maharashtra ATS and Mumbai crime branch so far. Though the outlawed home-grown terror group Indian Mujahideen was suspected to have triggered the blasts, the probe agencies are yet to conclusively pin the blame on any organisation.
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