Terror mail traced to UP cafe, Jaipur cops say holes in videoclip

In Jaipur, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje voiced doubts about the the genuineness of the video clip — it showed a bicycle with an alleged bomb strapped to it and parked in a crowded market — saying it could be an attempt to mislead investigations.

A previously unknown militant outfit calling itself Indian Mujahideen, in an email and video clip sent last night to some TV channels, claimed responsibility for the blasts in Jaipur.

The email gave a frame number (129489) of the bicycle which was planted at Chhoti Chaupad near Kotwali in Jaipur and warned of more such attacks in the country.

But IGP (Jaipur Range) Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the clip may have been the handiwork of mischievous elements.

“We studied the clip in detail and found several contradictions in the claims made through the email. The clip shows a blue bag on the bicycle. But the bag we recovered from the spot of a bomb that was defused was khaki in colour and of a different make. There is another discrepancy: the clip shows the bag tied to the carrier of the bicycle but in all the blasts, bags were tied to handles of the bicycles,” he said.

Though he said the clip may be an attempt to “mislead” police, Singh said a team had been sent to Sahibabad to question the detained cyber cafe owners.

Siyaram Mishra and his son Madhukar Mishra, owners of the Naveen Job Work and Photostat at A-37, Shyam Park Extension, were detained by the UP Special Task Force and Anti-Terrorist Squad around 2 am and 10-12 computers were confiscated.

In Lucknow, Addl DGP (Law and Order) Brij Lal said both men were “co-operating” with the investigators. “They are not accused in the case. We want to collect information about those who used the cyber cafe to send the mail,” he told The Indian Express.Sources in the UP police said they had been told about a couple who visited the cyber cafe with a CD. “Perhaps it was the same couple that sent the email. They were not known to be regular visitors at the cyber cafe,” the sources said.