HYDERABAD: The National Investigating Agency (NIA), probing the February 21 Dilsukhnagar Twin Blasts that claimed 16 lives and injured over 100, is questioning two more suspects.
The duo were brought to the city from Nellore District Jail and being interrogated but officials remained tightlipped about the probe.
Indian Mujahidden (IM) operative Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan, who had allegedly conducted a recce of the blast area, were brought to the state capital from Tihar Jail two days back after a Delhi court granted NIA five-day custody of the accused.
They were being questioned for the third day today by the NIA, according to sources here.
Though the CCTV footage lacked clarity, Maqbool, who trained over a dozen IM operatives including Tabrez and Waqas in preparing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), reportedly told the agency that one of the persons seen along with the bicycle looked like Tabrez, sources said.
The inputs given by Maqbool assumed significance as the investigators were already holding a view that Tabrez and Waqas could have played a key role in the twin blasts.
The NIA are likely to grill Maqbool and Khan for the next two days to get more inputs in the case, sources added.
Even as investigators struggled for a breakthrough nine days after the blasts, no arrests have been made officially either by state police or NIA in connection with the terror attack in which two powerful Improvised Explosive Devices(IED) went off in the crowded Dilsukhnagar area.
According to NIA, the blasts took place on instructions from IM’s Pakistan-based founder Riyaz Bhatkal and the duo’s interrogation will help in unearthing the exact plan hatched by the perpetrators.
Andhra Pradesh DGP, V Dinesh Reddy had earlier said sketches of suspects were being prepared and he was hoping for a breakthrough. The state government has formed 15 probe teams, besides NIA for probing the case. (AGENCIES)
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