Bodh Gaya blasts: Bombs may have been sourced from Assam, NIA says

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 23 Juli 2013 | 08.21

NEW DELHI: The 'Lotus' brand of clocks used in bombs planted at Bodh Gaya may have been sourced from Assam, the NIA has concluded after learning from its manufacturers in Rajkot, Gujarat, that the clocks are distributed for sale in Assam.

The trail of the clocks -- found intact in the unexploded bombs recovered from the Bodh Gaya blast sites -- has only confirmed the agencies' fears that the attacks may have links to Assam, which incidentally was the epicentre of communal riots last year between Bodos and Assamese Muslims. The wide circulation of an MMS depicting attacks on Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar is said to have played a major role in fanning communal passions at the time.

Though Union home ministry sources confirmed the Assam link to the clocks used in bombs planted at Bodh Gaya, they said it was too early to attribute the blasts to the Rohingya Muslim issue. "But it is a fact that the intelligence prior to the blasts had warned of attacks by radical outfits seeking to avenge attacks on Rohingyas of Myanmar," said an MHA official.

NIA, which is investigating the July 7 bombings at the world heritage site, sees an Indian Mujahideen footprint in the Bodh Gaya blasts, going by the modus operandi employed by the bombers and the nature of explosives used. NIA sources feel that either IM or a local outfit linked to the IM may have carried out the blasts.

The local angle is further corroborated as one of the suspect bombers was purportedly speaking in Magadhi, a local dialect, according to eyewitness accounts.

NIA had last week released two sketches of the suspected bomber recreated from CCTV footages and eyewitness accounts.

Recent inputs with R&AW, the country's external intelligence agency, suggest that Pakistan-based LeT, which is also the IM's patron, has been trying to open a new front in north-eastern region, close to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Both LeT and its overground avatar, JuD, have been working to extend their footprint in the region, riding piggyback on the sectarian violence targeted at Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.


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