Twenty days after he was discharged from Sassoon Hospital,the whereabouts of Dayanand Patil (38),who was the lone person injured in one of the four blasts that occurred on Jangli Maharaj Road on August 1,still remain unknown. However,what is clear is that Patil is currently not being investigated by the Anti-Terrorist Squad. Patils status as to whether he was a suspect or a victim had led to several conjectures. He was neither arrested nor were the police letting go of him. When contacted on Sunday,Deputy Inspector General,ATS,Sanjeev Latkar,said they were not aware of his whereabouts. Latkar denied that Patil was taken by the ATS after he was discharged from Sassoon on August 6. This is contrary to what the Bundgarden police had said on August 6. Ask the ATS, the Bundgarden police had said when Patil was discharged from the hospital around 10 pm. Hospital authorities had refused to reveal the timing of Patils discharge. Though the ATS had denied Patil was with them,sources said his movements were under watch. At Sasson,too,Patil was kept in a heavily guarded ward. Ramchandra Wadekar,brother-in-law of Patil,said the family did not know where Patil was staying now. He is neither in Uruli Kanchan nor in our native village in Bidar, he said. Wadekar said he has taken his sister Patils wife to their native village. He added he was in the lock-up for almost two days. So was my sister, he said,adding that the family was waiting for Patils return. A day after the blasts,investigators had carried out searches at Patils house in Uruli Kanchan and confiscated a passport that bore the record of his visit to Jordan in 2003-2004. Patil was under the scanner after the bag he was carrying exploded near Balgandharva Rang Mandir gate. Eyewitnesses had said Patil was trying to leave the place immediately after the blast,which apparently aroused the suspicion of the police. He stayed in a one-room house in Mehtre Chawl in Uruli Kanchan with his wife,three-year-old daughter Kirti and eight-year-old niece Deepali. Patil worked as a tailor on Shirole Road. The tailoring machine on which Patil worked is still with the owners who said they would let him work there if he returned. Neighbours said,Patil came to Uruli Kanchan three years ago. They also said that Patil was a reclusive man and they saw him twice a day while leaving the house early in the morning to catch a train to Pune and when he returned at night.
