No clue to 3 bomb blasts

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 27

Investigating agencies have failed to find a clue to the three bomb blasts rocking the state within five months.

A SIT constituted by the Haryana Police under ADGP (Crime) Shatrujeet Singh Kapur to investigate yesterday’s blast in a moving Haryana Roadways bus near Pipli is also looking into two previous incidents of January 15 and May 13, when similar low intensity blasts took place in train bogies at the Panipat railway station.

While eight passengers were hurt in yesterday’s bomb blast, there were no casualities in the earlier two explosions since the low intensity explosives were used in all the three blasts.

“There is no headway in the Pipli bomb blast so far. We are still not clear what could be the motive of the perpetrators,” said Simardeep Singh, SP, Kurukshetra.

He admitted the IED used in Pipli bus blast was similar to the one used in the passenger train that was to leave Panipat for Ambala on January 15 and the one that reached Panipat from Delhi on May 13 this year.

The police had initially suspected the role of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) when the first blast took place in January this year

However, the investigators failed to reach any definite conclusion.

In the second blast, the bomb was interestingly planted in the same spot and in a similar fashion.

In all these cases, the perpetrator, it seemed, had tried to send a message rather than cause damage to lives as bombs exploded when either the passengers had disembarked from the train or very were few left on board.

No headway has been made in any of these three cases by the police so far.