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Probe to focus on Harkat

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Lucknow and New Delhi: Local television stations said they had received an e-mail from a terrorist group unknown till now, Indian Mujahideen, claiming responsibility for Friday’s bomb attacks in three court complexes in Uttar Pradesh.

Officials said the name resembled the Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen, a Lashkar-e-Taiba front organisation which carried out strikes in Andhra Pradesh in 1998.

However, intelligence sources in New Delhi said investigations were likely to focus on the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami, a Bangladesh-based terror group involved in a string of recent strikes in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. In May, police seized almost 30 kg of explosives before they were delivered to a HuJI cell.

While the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad has no institutional relationship with the HuJI, both are linked by theological affiliations and draw much of their cadre from the Students Islamic Movement of India.

Mayawati’s charge

Chief Minister Mayawati blamed the Central intelligence agencies for the serial bomb blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi, saying they failed to give prior information and directives for taking safeguards.

At a press conference in Lucknow, she announced a compensation of Rs. 2 lakh to the next of kin of each of the 13 persons killed and Rs. 50,000 to the injured.

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