Delhi blast: Man resembling NIA sketch detained near Kolkata

A 45-year-old man has been detained from a remote village in Kolkata by the Special Task Force of West Bengal officials in connection with recent Delhi high court blast. Later on, he was handed over to the team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has been camping in the city for the last couple of days.

The man introduced himself as Syed Afjal Taher was undergoing treatment in Bagnan Rural hospital in Horwah with splinter injuries similar to blast wounds for the past two days on his left palm, face and legs. Sources said that he was picked up the local police on his resemblance to one of suspects, whose sketch was released by the NIA and Delhi police, a day after the blast.

Sources disclosed that the person refused to give his personal details to the hospital authorities and when the local police cross-checked with him, he tried to mislead them with contradictory statements.

Urdu is his mother tongue, but he has proficiency in Hindi, Nepali and English. No document or luggage was found along with him. My sources also told me that Taher hails from Banke district of Nepal which is bordering to Uttar Pradesh.

He was somewhere in south Bengal and was travelling in a Howrah bound local train. On the way due to unbearable pain he got off and was looking for medicine. He opted for rural hospital as he felt it safe

Meanwhile, probing team has learnt that second and fourth Indian Mujahideen email, which was sent to Delhi police and couple of TV channel, originated from Kolkata. The e-mail was sent from chottuminaliyashuman@gmail, claiming responsibility of the Delhi high court blast and threatened to carry out such attacks in future.

Earlier on Monday, the J&K Police detained two more youths from Kishtwar town in connection with the first e-mail from HuJI, claiming responsibility for the blast.