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| Mumbai 13/7 serial blasts |
| Mumbai 13/7 serial blasts: Centre in damage control mode, says happy case is cracked
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| INDIA
, 24-January-2012
7:10:51 AM |
| After considerable embarrassment, claims and counter-claims, the Centre now says it is happy after all with the breakthrough that the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad has had in the 13/7 blasts case. Yesterday, it is believed to have rapped ATS chief Rakesh Maria on the knuckles for having announced the arrest of three men in the case, saying one of them was in fact an informer.
Today, Home Secretary RK Singh seemed to do some urgent damage control as he hastened to explain that Naqqi Sheikh of Darbhanga in Bihar, arrested recently, was indeed the informer that Delhi Police claimed he was and could very well also be the man who helped Indian Mujahideen mastermind Yasin Bhatkal allegedly set up the Mumbai triple blasts. "It is true that Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police were running an operation in which this person was an informer. But the fact that he was an informer in a particular operation in which he was supposed to lead these people to the location that is separate. That does not mean he could be or was involved in the bomb blasts. The ATS has come to that conclusion after investigation" Mr Singh said.
What Mr Singh did say was that the country's Investigating agencies needed better coordination and it was to this end that the government had decided to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). The government's Cabinet Committee on security cleared a proposal to set up the centre earlier this month.
Hours after the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) in Maharashtra announced yesterday that it had arrested three men, including Naqqi Sheikh, for helping execute the trio of blasts in Mumbai, the Central government is believed to have pulled up ATS chief Rakesh Maria and sources said the Mumbai anti-terror team had not only picked up the wrong man, but had also blown a carefully launched covert operation to nab those involved in the terror attacks.
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