New Delhi, September 21: Two persons have been detained for questioning in connection with the e-mail purportedly sent by terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, owning up the attacks outside Jama Masjid in Delhi on September 19,2010.
A Tata mobile number was used to send an e-mail to a foreign television network by a person from the IM owning up the terror attacks at the Jama Masjid in which two Taiwanese tourists were injured on Sunday.
Police teams rushed to an address in the western suburbs but found no trace of the person from the details given in the forged papers.
Late Monday evening, Delhi Police confirmed that the internet protocol address from which the IM email was sent was traced to a Mumbai computer.
When Maharashtra ATS and crime branch officers reached the address, they did not find anyone by that name living there, said a senior police official.
Two persons have been picked up for questioning, he said, refusing to divulge further details.
Soon after the firing near Jama Masjid on Sunday,an e-mail was sent to various media houses, threatening to carry out attacks during the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
While the email does not directly refer to the incident of firing, but said “in the name of Allah, attack is a tribute to Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid.”
Both Amin and Sajid were killed by police in Batla House encounter on September 19, 2008. As in the previous instance, when two years ago the Indian Mujahideen had hacked the unsecured wifi internet connection of an American national, Kenneth Haywood, minutes before the Ahmedabad terror attacks of July 26, 2008, which left 50 dead, investigators apprehend that a similar modus operandi may have been used even this time.
—Agencies