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This is an archive article published on May 15, 2008

Jaipur blasts: UP cyber cafe owner, staff detained

Owner of a cyber cafe, from where email claiming responsibility of blasts was sent, have been detained for questioning.

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The owner and employee of a cyber cafe from where an email claiming responsibility for Tuesday’s Jaipur serial blasts was sent have been detained for questioning by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

Shyam Bir, owner of the cyber cafe in Sahibabad town, and his employee were taken for questioning late Wednesday night by the Special Task Force (STF) of the police, District Superintendent of Police Deepak Ratan said.

The email was purportedly sent by militant outfit ‘Indian Mujahideen’ to TV channels on Wednesday, claiming responsibility for the blasts and giving details of a bicycle allegedly used in one of the explosions at Choti Chaupad in Jaipur.

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Police also raided a house in Baghpat district in its hunt for one Shamim, chief of the western UP unit of Harkat-ul Jehadi Islami (HuJI) of Bangladesh, who is suspected to be involved in the Varanasi serial blasts in 2006.

Although the raid yielded no result, police sources said that he is also suspected to be involved in the Jaipur blasts.

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