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No breakthrough in Narwal bomb blast case even after 72 hours


Nitesh Sangral  

JAMMU, Nov 20: Even after seventy two hours police and intelligence agencies are clueless about the people involved in the mysterious blast at Narwal, which killed one person and injured five others.

Even as police have rounded up 16 suspects persons, including a prominent Deobandi scholar and Islamic jurist Mufti Faizul Waheed, but still there is no headway in knowing the real hand behind the incident. .
The point is that since the Darbar move, city is under strict blanket of security has raised questions about the efficiency of the intelligence agencies.

Over 16 suspects picked up from different areas for questioning but nothing has been achieved in the matter till this time.

Officials said that a former militant  and presently teacher at a madrassa in Bhathindi area of the city, Mufti Waheed was picked up at 2 am on Sunday morning and released within half-an-hour with a direction to return to the police station in the morning. Mufti again left for Narwal police station at around 11 am in the Sunday morning.

“We cannot say anything at the moment, investigation is going on and we will crack the case soon”, said a top police official on condition of anonymity.

“Though the suspects were released after questioning, security agencies are still stand at the same place, they have nothing getting clue to know, who was involved in the incident,” added. He stated so far security agencies are investigating the matter. Some raids were also carried out at the railway station.

Source said that all the intelligence and law enforcing agencies were activated immediately after the blast but till there was no clue about the person or persons who lobbed the grenade towards the liquor shop. “The intelligence agencies have also come under criticism from the top brass for its failure to understand the gravity of the situation, especially after the shootout outside the two liquor shops in Srinagar,” he said.

He further said that the administration suggested the wine traders to modernize their operations, install CCTVs, take help of private security, avoid crowd in front of liquor shops and be alert, particularly during the evening hours, sources said adding that a proposal for changing the time of closing wine shops earlier was also given.

The first incident of violence in Jammu city since November 24, 2002 when militants had attacked Raghunath Temple in which 9 persons were killed and 42 injured.

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