 Three persons are understood to have been detained in Srinagar by Delhi Police in connection with the serial blasts in the national capital. A team of Delhi Police picked them up over the last three days on the basis of leads provided by Tariq Ahmed Dar, the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist who masterminded the October 29 serial blasts and was arrested on November 10, sources said. While Hanief Ahmed Dar was detained from Kawdara area in downtown Srinagar on Sunday evening, Imtiaz Ahmed was held from Chanpora area in the city on Monday morning, the sources said. The identity of the third man was not known. The three had been taken to Delhi for further questioning, the sources said. However, senior officials of the Delhi Police's Special Cell, which is conducting the investigations into the blasts, were tight-lipped about the entire episode. Dar, who also functioned as the spokesman of LeT in the Kashmir Valley, had told his interrogators that the RDX used in the blasts had been smuggled into Jammu and Kashmir from across the Line of Control, sources said. All of the [suspects] were believed to be Pakistanis and security in markets in Delhi and the Metro had been increased after it emerged that they had identified eight places in the city to carry out a second string of explosions, the sources said. |