Investigators looking into Wednesday’s blasts have said no vehicle was used in any of the three explosions.
Investigators looking into Wednesday’s blasts have said no vehicle was used in any of the three explosions. Also, police sources said that the modus operandi has been similar to that followed in Pune’s German Bakery blast.
ATS sources said the owner of the Activa scooter found at Zaveri Bazaar has been identified as a shopkeeper, whom the ATS questioned on Friday. “There is nothing suspicious as of now about the said vehicle,” said an ATS official.
“It is highly improbable that an unknown person parked his vehicle in the busy Khau Galli at Zaveri Bazaar and walked away easily. Shop owners there utilise the space to park their own vehicles, as there is a space crunch. On inspecting the spot at Zaveri Bazaar, it was learnt that most of the impact was towards the ground. This indicates that the bomb was probably not planted on the vehicle,” said an investigator.
The officer also hinted that the modus operandi followed in the three blasts could be similar to that seen in Pune’s German Bakery blast. “The planters had gone inside the bakery and kept a bag containing explosives between the seats before walking away. Even in this case, it seems that the terrorists kept the explosives in a tiffin box between two vehicles — an Activa scooter and a Splendor motorcycle. Not many would have noticed the box, as vehicles are parked very close to each other in that lane,” the officer said.
Speaking about the blast at Opera House, the police said that the bomb could have been planted in a burrow, and not on a motorbike (as was assumed earlier). Investigators’ suspicion is based on the fact that the motorbike, on which the bomb was assumed to have been planted, has not been damaged as much it should have been, considering the intensity of the blast.
Sleuths and forensic experts who surveyed the blast site said that there is a three-foot crater next to the spot where the bike was stationed. The bomb could have been placed inside a burrow, leading to the crater.
On the Dadar blast, the officer said that it is evident the explosive was kept on the shelf of a bus stop. “There is no CCTV footage available to show that the bombs were placed on vehicles,” the officer said.
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