Groups from Nepal, Bangladesh involved in blasts: ATS

MUMBAI: Preliminary investigations have indicated the involvement of terror groups from Nepal and Bangladesh in the train blasts here and this points at the "direct or indirect" involvement of Pakistan, a top police official said here on Friday.

 

KP Raghuvanshi, the chief of Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorist Squad, said, "Investigations so far reveal the involvement of terror groups from Nepal and Bangladesh and (this) in turn, points at the direct or indirect involvement of Pakistan."
   
He told reporters there was "definite evidence" that the blasts were part of a larger conspiracy involving more players but refused to divulge details.

 

Raghuvanshi said it was too early to comment on which terror organisation was involved in the blasts, but said that Kamal Ahmed Ansari -- one of the three suspects arrested on Friday -- was booked by Delhi Police some years ago for possession of an AK-47 assault rifle.

 

On why the stringent MCOCA has not been invoked against the three arrested men, he said that the arrests did not attract the requisite conditions of MCOCA. "The Act can be invoked only if the accused has been chargesheeted in at least two cases," he said.

 

He refused to comment on the individual role of the arrested men in the blasts, saying, "I will present the evidence against them in court in due course."