The email’s origin was initially tracked to an internet café in East Delhi. However, sources told DNA that the email may have had “its origins” in the United States.
NEW DELHI: Investigations into the serial bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh last week are spreading to the United States as the complex web of local terror modules seems to have unusually close international linkages.
At least 13 people died in the six blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi within 20 minutes on Friday afternoon.
The US link emerged from an email sent to television channels around the time the bombs went off. The email’s origin was initially tracked to an internet café in East Delhi. However, sources told DNA that the email may have had “its origins” in the United States, and India has contacted the US authorities for help through their mission here. The US response is expected over the next couple of days.
Sources say this linkage has further complicated probe into the blasts. As of now, there are only vague indications that a module of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (Huji) may have been involved in the blasts.
Besides the central intelligence agencies, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of the central government is also involved in the investigations. Cyber experts at CERT and other agencies have discovered that the email, which is believed to been sent from East Delhi, had its origins in the US.
Sources did not disclose if the email was sent from the US using a proxy IP (internet protocol) address that may have led the investigators (wrongly) to East Delhi, or if the email was drafted in the US and sent across or shared with people who eventually sent it from East Delhi.
With the emergence of the international angle, investigators are struggling to figure out the exact “links” between those who sent the email and the UP bombers. According to the records, the email was sent at 1.18 pm on Friday, almost eight minutes after the first bomb went off.
The emails were sent from an email guru_alHindi@yahoo.fr, a service provided to the French customers of yahoo. According to reports, the mail account was opened just a day before the blasts.
The mail claimed that the bombings were in retaliation to the police framing innocents with “fake charges” in the so-called conspiracy to kidnap Rahul Gandhi.
And the mail also drew attention to the attack by lawyers on those who were arrested in that conspiracy. The email insists that the UP bombers were “not any foreign mujahideen nor even we have any attachment with neighbouring countries agency like ISI, LeT, Huji, etc. (sic)”
It is possible that the email was drafted and sent from the US, using a proxy IP address that could have misled the investigators to the East Delhi internet café. It is also possible that the email was drafted in the US and saved into the email address. And at the appointed time, a local contact in Delhi opened the mail and sent it out from the East Delhi café.
A third possibility is that some people may have sent out the email from another ID using several software programmes that are available free of cost.
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