Surat bomb is replica of Hyderabad’s, terror mail ID created day before blasts

Jailed SIMI general secretary Safdar Nagori has told his interrogators that his organisation had nothing to do with either the Ahmedabad or the Jaipur blasts. While he is said to have admitted to interrogators that the SIMI had plans to target Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Leader of Opposition L K Advani, Nagori repeated that neither he nor his organisation had anything to do with the serial blasts.

Gujarat government sources confirmed to The Indian Express that the defused Surat bomb and the Dilsukhnagar device (planted under a pedestrian overbridge) were both packed in wooden boxes with hexagon concave shape for maximum damage. The two devices had a tin-sheet bottom with ammonium nitrate-based gelatin, ball bearings, APCL detonator and Prince time clock (a subsidiary of the Samay quartz clock that has been found at the sites of all major attacks). This indicates that the bomb-maker may be the same person or may have been trained by the same group.

Investigators say that even though there are linkages between the Hyderabad and Ahmedabad serial blasts, the Jaipur bombs were more sophisticated as they were of convex shape for maximum impact in only one direction — the so-called directional bombs. Like the defused Jaipur device which had some 1400 ball bearings, the Ahmedabad devices had been packed with ball bearings that had been calibrated for desired impact.

Meanwhile, preliminary evidence suggest that the email account used by Indian Mujahideen to send the warning mail minutes before the blasts in Ahmedabad on Saturday might have been created just a day earlier.

Sources said this was in stark resemblance to the Jaipur blasts in May, for which the same organisation had claimed responsibility. In the case of Jaipur blasts too, Indian Mujahideen had sent a mail to media organisations from a yahoo.co.uk account. This time it was sent from a yahoo.com address that was created most probably on July 25.

Sources said this was just one of the evidences pointing to linkages between the Ahmedabad blasts and those that happened in Jaipur and Hyderabad. This has also led the investigators to believe that, in all likelihood, the same core group of people might be behind all the three incidents.