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With the investigation in the Delhi High Court blast case throwing up evidence of a possible UP link and involvement of Indian Mujahideen,a team of the states Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) reached Delhi on Thursday to help the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The ATS team,which investigated the blast at Varanasis Sheetla Ghat last year,was sent after NIA Director General S C Sinha called up UPs Special DG (Law & Order) Brij Lal last evening and specifically requested the team. The team members were hastily summoned and told to leave for Delhi.
Sources said that the NIA investigation indicated that the same module of Indian Mujahideen may have carried out the blasts in Varanasi and Delhi,while the youths in Kishtwar were used only for sending the email after the Delhi blast.
The NIA has asked for help from the UP ATS because it had worked on the suspects in the Varanasi blast,who hailed from UP and Bihar. However,none of them has so far been arrested. Top government sources indicated on Wednesday that investigators were close to cracking the December 2010 case.
The ATS team,led by Additional SP Rajesh Kumar Pandey,comprises an inspector,sub-inspector and constables. The team will camp in Noida and coordinate with the NIA.
An official said that after the Varanasi blast,the ATS had obtained a video showing.
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