AJmer blast accused person queationed about possible Mecca masjid blast link

With the Anti Terrorist Squad of Rajasthan Police making a possible breakthrough in Ajmer blast, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has joined the probe to ascertain the role of arrested persons with the 2007 Mecca Masjid terror strike in Hyderabad.

Official sources said a joint team of ATS, CBI and central security agencies were questioning two of three arrested persons - Davindra Gupta and Chandrashekar - in connection with their possible involvement in the Mecca Masjid blast.

The role of the duo was purchasing of SIM cards and timer devices which were used to trigger the blast in Ajmer on October 12, 2007.


Two pilgrims were killed and nine others, including a child, were injured in the terror attack when a crude bomb went off at the Sufi shrine of Khawaja Moinuddhin Chishti in Ajmer where thousands of devotees had gathered to break their day-long Ramzan fast.

The low-intensity improvised bomb which was kept close to Aasthan-e-Noor went off a minute after the period of fast ended, indicating the similarity of execution timing with the Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blast.

The probe had suggested that modus operandi, nature of explosives and the kind of bomb used in the Ajmer blast resemble Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad, the probe of which is being done by the CBI.

The low-intensity improvised bomb which was kept in a tin box, with a packing of iron pipes, in Ajmer was similar to the contraption used in the Mecca blast, the sources said.

CBI was refraining to comment on the issue officially, but the sources said a team had moved in to question the duo and their links with some of the accused identified by the agency in connection with the Mecca Masjid blasts.

Five persons died in the blast and nine in the subsequent police firing outside the mosque on a Friday when thousands of Muslims gathered for prayers on May 18, 2007.