India’s Inspector-General of Police Mahesh Kumar Agarwal says that the investigation so far had not indicated any link between the May Day twin blasts and Zakir Hussain, a Sri Lankan national arrested by the Chennai police three days ago.
Senior officials of the CB-CID rushed to Bangalore following a tip-off.
Hussein, a Sri Lankan national, was arrested on Tuesday and has been charged under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
In a find that could help crack the mystery behind the twin blasts in a train at the Chennai Central railway station, the State police on Friday released the CCTV footage of a man running on the platform soon after the train’s arrival.
The Crime-Branch CID, investigating the blasts on board the Bangalore-Guwahati Express that killed a woman passenger and injured 14, disclosed here that the explosives planted in the train were similar to those used to trigger multiple blasts in Patna hours before the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, was to address an ‘Hunkar rally’ on October 28, 2013.
The DMK Supremo, M. Karunanidhi has lashed out at the Jayalalithaa-led state government and has alleged that the blasts in Chennai “could have been averted if the police had properly questioned the recently arrested alleged ISI operative Sakir Hussein.
