Terror outfit says it has sent three e-mails

An intriguing information has emerged from the 12th page of the 13-page e-mail, dispatched just minutes after the first blast went off in New Delhi on Saturday. It has thrown the investigating agencies into a tizzy.

An investigator, who has closely scrutinised the e-mail, said, “In the first paragraph of the 12th page, it has been clearly mentioned, ‘The Indian Mujahideen accepts the sole responsibility of the Delhi serial blasts, and we claim this through our third consecutive e-mail’.”

Media channels have so far received five e-mails after the Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts. One e-mail was sent from Khalsa College in Matunga after Gujarat police announced the breakthrough in the Ahmedabad blasts.

“But this mail states that only three have been sent by the Indian Mujahideen. We are looking at this aspect very closely,” the officer said.

If what the latest e-mail claims is true, then who sent the other two mails? “There is a possibility that the person who sent the first two e-mails (Lucknow and Jaipur) is different from the person who sent the last three,” said the officer.

Explaining it, he said that the language of the first two e-mails was completely different from that of the last three. “This seems to indicate that the five mails were written by at least two different writers.”

Another possibility could be that the e-mails had been sent by two entirely different terror groups, both claiming to be Indian Mujahideen.

“It may be recalled that there was no e-mail after the blasts in Bangalore. Interestingly, no one has claimed the  responsibility for those blasts,” the officer said.