Maharashtra ATS Team to visit Jaipur

Mumbai, May 13 (UNI) A team of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra Police will soon visit the serial blasts sites in Jaipur, a top ATS officer said tonight.

The team will leave the city within two days and hold meetings with the local investigators, ATS chief Hemant Karkare told newsmen here.

The ATS team will examine the explosives used in the blasts and compare the same with the train blasts occurred in here in 2006, Mr Karkare said.

Meanwhile, high alert has been declared at the railway stations across the state in the wake of serial blasts in Jaipur, where at least 50 people were killed and over 100 injured, said K P Raghuvanshi, the railway police chief and former ATS chief.

The police bandobast has also been stepped up at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Churchgate and Mumbai Central railway stations and in the subrban and long distance trains.

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