New Delhi, November 01: Suspecting a similarity between the blasts at Delhi High Court and in Udhampur, the National Investigation Agency is poring through forensic evidence and the interrogation report of a government employee arrested in connection with the Udhampur blast in May.
The NIA, probing the Delhi High Court blast, has taken forensic evidence gathered from the site of the blast at Udhampur which was aimed at making a Major General-rank officer posted at Army’s Northern Command the target, sources privy to the probe said today.
NIA has approached the local police and sought all the information pertaining to the blast as the agency believes that a Paksitani national disguising himself as a local resident of Rajouri — Ghulam Sarwar — could be the mastermind behind both the blasts.
Sarwar, who is married to a local woman in Rajouri and has two children, was identified allegedly by Abid Hussain and Hafiz Aamir Abbas Dev from the photographs shown to them. The two men have recorded their confessional statement before a magistrate.
Abid and Haifiz were arrested within days of the High Court blast and during the confessional statement, the duo is believed to have owned up responsibility for drafting and sending an email after the attack.
The High Court blast on September seven left 15 people dead and it was the first case to be handed over to the NIA after its inception in the aftermath of Mumbai attack in 2008.
Ghulam Sarwar, according to the interrogation report of Abdul Majeed, a government employee, arrested in connection with the Udhampur blast, is a Lashker-e-Taiba(LeT) terrorist.
—PTI—