Date:16/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/16/stories/2008051650250100.htm

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E-mail sent from cyber cafe

Devesh K. Pandey

NEW DELHI: An e-mail sent to the media on Wednesday, claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts, has been traced to a cyber cafe at Sahibabad in Ghaziabad. The e-mail sender has threatened to carry out more such strikes in different parts of the country.

The cafe owner and an employee were picked up for questioning by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday night, and during questioning, cafe owner Madhukar Mishra said the e-mail sender brought a compact disc along with him. He, however, could not give details about that person’s identity.

The police seized the computer’s hard disk.

The mail, sent through the ID “guru_alhindi_jaipur

@yahoo.co.uk” by an outfit identifying itself as “Indian Mujahideen,” had a video attachment that showed a bag, purportedly containing a bomb, kept on the carrier of a cycle near the Kotwali police station.