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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) are on the trail of two youths who,the two agencies suspect,had triggered the blast at Sheetla Ghat in Varanasi on December 7,2010.
The investigating agencies have reportedly also identified the two youths,who keep on changing their hideouts.
The NIA decided to work jointly with the UP ATS after they got some clues that indicated the same group which was behind the Varanasi blasts could be involved in September 7 attack at the Delhi High Court.
Sources said the NIA and the ATS have identified one suspect,who is apparently seen in a video footage planting the bomb on the stairs at Sheetla Ghat in Varanasi. The agencies have also got a clue about an associate of the prime suspect.
While the ATS is not ready to divulge details,both the suspects are said to belong to Uttar Pradesh.
Investigation has found that the youth seen in the video clip is an expert in assembling timer devices. He was recruited by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) on the recommendation of a senior operative who was arrested in Mumbai a week after the Batla House operation in Delhi on September 26,2008.
He was among the first recruits after the IM was formed by Amir Raza Khan,an official said.
The sources said the suspect was brought up and studied in a south Indian state,where he was working for a leading travel agency before he joined the outfit.
The joint teams of NIA and the UP ATS are going through details of the suspects provided by the Mumbai Intelligence Bureau unit.
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