THE PROBE into the Varanasi bomb blasts is back to square one, with the release of two suspects, who were brought to the city on Saturday, and six others.
Sources expressed the apprehension that the present case may meet the same fate as two other unsolved blasts cases.The suspects, who were paraded before two vendors, convinced investigators they were in Shahjahanpur on March 7 when the blasts took place.
“The sketches released by the Varanasi police have not yielded any result. The vendors claimed that they had identified the suspects. But, the suspects insisted they were in Shahaehanpur that day. All this put a question mark on the accuracy of the sketches,” Intelligence sources said.
Nevertheless, vendors Chandan and Satnam Prasad alias Pullu maintained that they had identified the suspects who purchased doormats from them.
Sources said the blasts case had become as difficult as the Shramjivi Express blast that claimed at least 14 lives at Singaramau in Jaunpur district on July 28, 2005 and the Dashaswamedh Ghat blast that claimed seven lives on February 22, 2005.
Though the sketch of the Shramjivi Express blast was released, no headway has been made in the case so far. The fate of the Dashashwmedh blast case was similar.
Sadiq Ali and Ansar Ali, who were picked up by police from a market in Hardoi on Friday, along with six others, were brought to Varanasi on Saturday. They were paraded before the two vendors for identification in a hotel.
{{/usCountry}}Sadiq Ali and Ansar Ali, who were picked up by police from a market in Hardoi on Friday, along with six others, were brought to Varanasi on Saturday. They were paraded before the two vendors for identification in a hotel.
{{/usCountry}}“Even scanning of telephone calls of March 7 to and from Varanasi had not yielded much,” intelligence sources said.