Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone. Age 22. Lives in Banihal, Doda district. Suspected Hizbul/Lashkar operative. For the last three days, he is the “big catch” of the October 29 Delhi blasts shuttling between interrogation sessions of Rashtriya Rifles, J&K police and today the Delhi Special Cell. Highly placed sources said that Lone’s involvement, as per his interrogation report, seems to be confined to the job of a “carrier” of explosives. In fact, at 4.30 pm when a police team took him to Paharganj, Lone couldn’t identify the blast site. Lone did not meet any of the terrorists involved in the Sarojini Nagar and Govindpuri blasts, senior officials said. Yet, investigators are carefully looking at his interrogation report recorded by the Rashtriya Rifles. In that, he is said to have claimed that two of the intended targets were New Delhi railway station and Jamia Nagar instead of Paharganj and the DTC bus in Govindpuri. Sources said that Lone has claimed that acting at the behest of Lashkar commander Bahadur Jan, he carried explosives in an apple crate from Banihal to Delhi in a bus. He then met three terrorists in Delhi’s Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar on the morning of October 28—a day before the serial blasts. Lone’s interrogation report says he chose Delhi’s Transport Nagar for a meeting with the terrorists as he was familiar with the area having driven trucks on the Delhi-Anantnag route. Along with three other terrorists—including the one whose portrait has been put out by Delhi police—they took an auto-rickshaw for a recce of the railway station the morning of Oct 29. The report adds that the “portrait man” was driving the auto-rickshaw then, the number of which was DL 1G I 5437. “This is a fake number the terrorists were using to hide,” said probe officials.
