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Police detain four in connection with German Bakery blast probe | Maharashtra Police has detained four people in connection
with the blast that ripped the German Bakery here on Saturday at around 7 pm. Two suspects were picked up from Kudalwadi and Janawadi areas of the city, while
the other two suspects were detained in Aurangabad. The four were detained on
Monday night, and the police have also been questioning several people in this
regard. Pune Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh had on Monday said that the
investigation
into Saturday's blast was progressing in the right direction, but declined to
provide any details of the lead obtained so far. Pune police is however, awaiting
forensic experts' report determining the nature of the device used in the blast.
Meanwhile, the daughter of the owner of the German Bakery, where the blast took
place has claimed that the bakery has its own CCTV footages. Investigating agencies
are already examining the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage that was
obtained
of the front area of German Bakery, and are hoping that the footages captured
by the CCTV cameras would provide them important clues to the whole incident.
Sources had earlier claimed the CCTV footage of the German Bakery at the time
of the blast, reveals vital clues. Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has
taken the possession of the footage and is monitoring the images along with the
National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Delhi. The Pune Police is collecting
eyewitness accounts of the suspicious duo spotted in the CCTV footage. The blast
in Pune was reportedly triggered as part of what is called the Karachi Project
planned by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). The details of the alleged Karachi Project
were revealed by the arrested suspected Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley
to the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Headley had recced areas in
Pune near the blast site. He had reportedly also recced other cities including
Mumbai, Delhi, Pushkar and Goa, staying close to Jewish prayer centres in these
cities. Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has said that there is definitely a Headley
link since he stayed at Osho Ashram, which was close to the German Baker.
Headley
had spoken of an ISI-sponsored 'Karachi Project' to take away Indian youth to
Pakistan and indoctrinate them to carry out terror attacks in India, added Pillai.
"We cannot rule out or rule in the possibility of the involvement of foreign hands
in Pune blast," Pillai said adding that the investigators were on their job and
the government needed some time to break the case. The bomb, which killed nine
people and wounded at least 57, is seen as the first major attack on India since
the 2008 Mumbai massacre and appeared to target Indian and foreign tourists. |
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