Clock in stadium bombs points at IM

Sources in Bangalore said the Indian Mujahideen is being linked to the April 17 bomb episode outside the cricket stadium largely on account of the presence of the clocks. “But as these clocks are easily available all over the country it is not easy to corroborate only on this basis or the usage of ammonium nitrate gel as the explosive,” said the sources.

Much of the training of Indian Mujahideen men in bomb making was imparted in the Chikmagalur region of Karnataka through early 2007 by a man called Yasin Bhatkal,according to accounts provided to the police in different states by arrested members of the Indian Mujahideen. The police had been working on creating a full list of people trained by Bhatkal and have been talking to his younger brother for details of his activities and links ever since he emerged as a key suspect in the February 13,2010 bombing at the German Bakery in Pune.

Karnataka DGP Ajai Kumar Singh said: “We are looking at the similarities between these blasts and blasts in other parts of the country. There are however a lot of dissimilarities between these blasts and the July 25 serial blasts in Bangalore.”

Meanwhile,police officials from Pune also examined the blast sites on Tuesday.