Click to play videoNew Delhi: Preliminary investigations indicate similarities between blasts in Malegaon, Modasa in Gujarat and Mehrauli area in Delhi.
In Malegaon on Monday, two men ride a motorcycle into a crowded market and drop a bag containing a bomb. A local resident picks up the bag, setting off an explosion.
In Delhi on Saturday, a 9-year-old boy picks up a packet dropped by two people on a bike, setting off an explosion and instantly killing him.
The intent behind both attacks seems to be to spark communal conflict.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister RR Patil said that the motive behind these acts were to disturb communal harmony.
Two years ago, at least 37 people were killed and more than 125 others injured in bombings at a graveyard adjacent to Malegaon's Noorani Masjid.
Four people died in an explosion near the same Masjid in the bomb attack on Monday night.
Minutes later another explosion in the Muslim-dominated neighbourhood of Modasa in Gujarat claimed another life.
Is it time the government looked into the role of right wing organisations other than those preaching Jehadi ideology?
Social activist Shabnam Hashmi feels that there could be more players than what the state is hunting for.
In fact, security experts believe that one kind of terrorism often provides fuel to other radical ideologies and to fight only one may not help.
Ex-RAW Counter Terror Expert RSN Singh says, “The bomb in itself is not a big deal. It is only an explosive which creates some causalities and tries to terrorize the society, but an ideological bomb is far more potent than an improvised explosive device (IED).
The government, the intelligence and the press have to find what impact can they have on the country whether it be majority, minority, religious or ethnic ideology.
Just days after police claimed to have cracked a major terror network, India has faced three more strikes.
This highlights the fact that if police have to comprehensively defeat the menace of terrorism, they have to look beyond the usual suspects.
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