Second group claims credit for Delhi blast

With investigators already making arrests in connection with an initial email claiming credit for the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, a second email from the Indian Mujahideen has also claimed responsibility for yesterday’s bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court.

Already five people, including four in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar and one in Uttar Pradesh, have been detained by the authorities in connection the email claiming credit for HuJI, according to CNN/IBN.

The news channel quoted UK Bansal, Secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of Home Affairs as saying that investigators will also look into the email purportedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen.

In the past, the Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Jaipur, Pune, Varanasi and other Indian locations.

The first e-mail reportedly sent by Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) has been traced to the Global Cyber Cafe situated in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. The owner of the cyber cafe and three others have been detained and are being questioned, the channel said.

The fifth person, who has been detained in Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh, has been identified as Shahzad and police officials say he resembles one of the sketches released by Delhi Police on Wednesday, according to CNN/IBN. Police are verifying his identity through his relatives and the village head man. Shahzad reportedly works in a factory in Pune, Maharashtra.

The interrogation of the cyber café owner and three others has revealed that a youth visiting the cafe may have sent the email, which called for clemency for a Kashmiri citizen convicted of aiding in the 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian parliament named Afzal Guru. Guru is currently on death row in India. CNN/IBN said that suspects hinted that the young man who sent the email may not have actually had any other connection to the bomb blast.