Hunt on for rly. station blast suspect

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JAN. 7. The Delhi police on Friday released a sketch of one of the men suspected to be involved in the bomb blast on the Saharanpur-bound Shamli Express at the Old Delhi railway station on Thursday.

Police said the accused - who was wearing a grey Pathani suit with a white ``jalidari topi'' (sieved cap) was seen in the compartment shortly before the explosion. The suspect is said to be between 20 and 22 years of age, five feet six inches tall, thin built with a fair complexion and sporting a small beard.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Railways), Mr. P.K. Srivastava, said the sketch had been prepared with the help of inputs provided by three eyewitnesses. They told police that the suspect, along with two or three of his accomplices, had boarded the train with a cloth bag but alighted soon after. While alighting, he apparently did not have the cloth bag - in which he is said to have carried the explosive - in his hand.

The police officer said that in all there were perhaps four young men of similar appearance present in the compartment a little before the explosions took place. ``Since they are not among the injured, nor among the eyewitnesses, we gather that they could have been responsible for the incident.''

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