Click to play videoNew Delhi: A well-planned series of blasts carried out with precision. It took the police nearly three months to make their breakthrough.
Three stress-filled months but at the end of it Joint Commissioner and ATS Chief K P Raghuvanshi deserves pat on the back from Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy.
With no clues to start with, the tedious investigation developed into a huge operation immediately after the blast.
The ATS formed itself into seven teams to explore all angles of the case. Apart from this two technical teams examined each piece of evidence and pieced the plot together.
Roy says, “We went across the country and made all kinds of scientific analysis including Narco-analysis which gave directions to our investigations."
Here is how the police cracked the case:
The first breakthrough came when police analysed telephone records, which pointed to calls being made from Navi Mumbai to the Nepal border.
This led to the arrest of Mumtaz Maqbool Chaudhary, a resident of Navi Mumbai. Chaudhary had made calls to Kamaluddin Ansari who was arrested from Madhubani in Bihar.
But the suspects could not be pinned down during the course of normal investigations and Narco-analysis followed.
Narco-analysis showed the involvement of the Lashkar and the Jaish as well as the ISI. The training was organised by Azam Cheema, who is Lashkar's field commander in charge of India operations.
All departments of the police were involved in the investigation and the Mumbai Police crime branch broke the terror module run by Faisal Sheikh, who had received huge quantities of money over the years through Hawala. One of the 11 suspects, Abu Osama was killed in an encounter at Antop Hill.
Out of the seven bombers four are in police custody while three are currently on the run and the Police says they are close to arresting one of these three.
But some of the kingpins behind the blast including Cheema are safely beyond India's borders.
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