Cops hunt for phone that sent terror mail

Delhi Police’s Special Cell is searching for an E-52 Nokia cellphone from which the terror e-mail was sent minutes before a car blew up outside the Jama Masjid a week ago.

Delhi Police’s Special Cell is searching for an E-52 Nokia cellphone from which the terror e-mail was sent minutes before a car blew up outside the Jama Masjid a week ago.

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Police said on the basis of technical surveillance they have zeroed down on the number and the man who sold the mobile phone in Mumbai but beyond that they don’t have any clues.

“We still have to trace the mobile phone. It is a crucial piece of evidence,” said a senior police officer.

The e-mail, purportedly sent by the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, had stated that the attack was a revenge of the Batla House encounter and that they had more plans ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Police will also interrogate the two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) militants arrested in Maharashtra in connection with a blast at the German Bakery in Pune, which claimed 17 lives in February this year.

Two Taiwanese tourists were hurt when two gunmen opened fire on their tourist bus outside Gate Number 3 of Jama Masjid. This was followed by a blast two hours later in a Maruti 800 parked barely 100 metres away.

Police said the poorly integrated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was placed in the car parked near a transformer.

“Investigations reveal the car was parked beside the transformer to cause maximum damage. The IED did not explode properly and resulted in only a minor explosion,” said the officer.

Police said their investigations were stuck as the Mumbai shopkeeper who sold the phone couldn’t recollect the name and identity of the buyer.

On the day of the blasts, Delhi Police had denied the possibility of a terror attack or that attack on tourists and the blast were linked.

The same day Delhi Police registered an FIR where they said that a “poorly integrated IED with two timers was used to ensure that the blasts took place.”