How Bengaluru's FSL helped crack the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case
New Delhi, Oct 2: The cracking of the 7/11 Mumbai serial blasts case was probably one of the toughest. There were unseen faces and a mastermind in Pakistan which made the job of the investigators tougher.
7/11 Mumbai blasts: What role did the 12 convicts play?
The probe agency was shooting in the dark for sometime and it was hard to pinpoint who was behind this ghastly act. One lead that came by was when two persons were distributing sweets following the blast.
This is where the investigations began. However to get further information from hardened criminals was an extremely difficult job and this is when the probe team headed by K P S Raghuvanshi landed up in Bengaluru for assistance from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory.
Picking
up
the
first
lead:
The
accused
persons
were
brought
down
to
Bengaluru's
FSL
where
they
were
subjected
to
various
scientific
tests.
Conducting
the
tests
on
them
was
extremely
difficult
as
two
of
the
accused
were
masters
at
dodging
investigation.
Two
accused
had
even
trained
to
beat
a
polygraph
test
when
they
were
training
in
Pakistan.
The first lead that the investigators got due to the tests was the organization that planned this blast. There were several doubts as to who had done it, but during the tests the names of Azam Cheema and others cropped up. This led to the probe agency to discover that it was the Lashkar-e-Tayiba which was behind the attack.
Raghuvanshi who had come to Bengaluru with the accused persons at that time says that it was a very difficult probe. The leads were not coming by easily and for sometime it appeared to be a dead case. However once the first leads began coming out, the rest of the probe followed.
The
training
module:
During
the
scientific
tests,
the
investigators
had
to
pose
various
questions
to
the
accused.
Some
of
them
were
professionals
at
dodging
all
questions
posed
to
them,
The
same
questions
had
to
be
asked
in
different
ways
before
more
leads
emerged
out
of
the
case.
During
the
tests,
the
accused
spoke
about
how
some
of
them
had
gone
to
Pakistan
to
train.
Then they began to reveal the source of the explosives and how they were prepared in the houses of the accused persons. Further they also spoke about how some of them had conducted a reconnaissance of the trains that were bombed on that fateful day.
Armed with the results of the scientific tests, the investigating team returned to Mumbai where the probe continued further. In any investigation the first leads are very important and this was possible thanks to the scientific tests conducted at the FSL in Bengaluru.
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