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Gujarat police release three sketches

Manas Dasgupta

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Profiling terror: Joint Police Commissioner H.P. Singh displays sketches of three suspects in the Ahmedabad serial bombings, on Wednesday.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat CID (crime branch) police on Wednesday released sketches of three suspects, who allegedly planted bombs on cycles at three places during the July 26 serial blasts in this city.

Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner H.P. Singh said the four sketches were prepared on the basis of the descriptions given by eyewitnesses, who claimed to have seen the bombers at the Narol circle near a Hanuman temple, at the Hatkeshwar circle at Maninagar and at the Raipur circle, Khadia, on July 26 evening.

The sketches, however, did not match with those prepared by the Jaipur police after the bomb blasts in the Rajasthan capital.

According to eyewitness descriptions, the person who parked a cycle near the Hanuman temple was aged between 45 and 50, well built, five and half feet in height, of wheatish complexion and bald at the centre of the head. He was wearing a lungi, a white shirt and slippers. The second suspect, who planted a bomb on a cycle and left it near a vegetable vendor’s cart at Hatkeshwar, was said to be about 30 years, 5’7” tall, black complexioned, and had curly hair and a thin moustache. He was wearing a yellow shirt and ash colour trousers.

The third suspect was the person who had purchased a cycle, which was later found used in the Raipur Circle blast. He was 5’8” tall, aged about 21, of bright wheatish complexion with back-brush hair, and medium built.

Meanwhile, the death toll in the Ahmedabad blasts has gone to 56, with one more person dying in the civil hospital on Tuesday night.

Investigators claimed that they had unravelled some “important clues” but declined to reveal details.

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