Year after Delhi blasts police yet to nab 14 accused

A year has gone by since serial blasts hit Delhi but police is yet to nab 14 suspected terrorists.

A year has gone by since the serial blasts hit the capital but police is yet to nab 14 suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists believed to be behind the attacks that left 26 people dead and 133 others injured.

Five blasts ripped through the capital on the evening of September 13 last year,for which terror group Indian Mujahideen had claimed responsibility.

As the city remembers the victims with moist eyes and prayers,a senior police official said they were on the trail and doing everything possible to catch those involved in the blasts,including Indian Mujahideen chief Amir Raza Khan.

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Police had caught 12 men suspected to be behind the blasts a few days after the incident besides killing two in a fierce encounter in a flat in south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar a week after the explosions.

In the encounter,which the locals and a section of political parties claimed was fake,Delhi Police lost its encounter specialist Mohan Chand Sharma.

However,the police got a shot in the arm when the National Human Rights Commission gave a clean chit to the police.

Police believe that Pak-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit aided the Indian Mujahideen in the blasts and one of its operative Abu Alkama masterminded it with the help of Amir Raza Khan,the chief of Indian Mujahideen,Iqbal Bhatkal and Riyz Bhatkal.

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