HuJI suspected behind Ajmer dargah blast

Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami militant outfit was suspected to be behind the blast at sufi shrine of Khwaja Mohiuddin Chisti in Ajmer, sources said.

Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami militant outfit of Bangladesh was suspected to be behind the blast at sufi shrine of Khwaja Mohiuddin Chisti at Ajmer in which militants used a mixture Tri-Nitro Toluene (TNT) as the explosive material, sources said.

The sleuths of central security agencies, accompanied by forensic experts, found a bag in which another crude bomb had been kept which was possibly to go off after the first explosion with an aim to trigger a stampede-like situation at the shrine.

The unexploded device was to be detonated with an alarm of the mobile phone which failed in this case thus saving the lives many, the sources said.

Shahid Bilal, based in Karachi, has emerged as a key suspect in the bomb attack that left two persons dead and 28 injured as the modus operandi was similar to that used in Mecca blast at Hyderabad in May this year.

Pieces of iron pipe were used by militants as splinters that pierced through the pilgrims who had gathered near the ‘Begum-Ki-Dhalan’ for breaking their Ramzan fast.

The sources did not rule out the possibility that banned HuJI may have been supported by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) which has been vociferous in its opposition to Sufi strain of Islam.