No e-trace yet in Jaipur, Ahmedabad blasts

AHMEDABAD: It couldn't get simpler than a bicycle. As the police struggles to put its informer network at the grassroots together, the terror modules, it appears are using more basic methods of communication and execution , leaving no electronic fingerprints behind.
Which is why there is no electronic evidence so far in terms of cellphone calls made or emails exchanged before the blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26 or in Jaipur on May 13, where also bicycles were used to plant bombs.Both the Jaipur and Ahmedabad blasts were owned up by 'Indian Mujahideen ' through emails, which is the only electronic evidence found linked to these blasts, so far.
A senior police officer involved in busting underworld networks in Ahmedabad told TOI, "Militants and terrorists are returning to traditional methods of communication by word of mouth while the police is busy in electronic surveillance and phone interception. They are also probably aware of the collapse of the police's human intelligence network since 2002."
"Thus, it is easy for the nondescript bicycle to make its way to a crowded bazaar unnoticed and blow up," says this officer.
Rajasthan's deputy inspector general of police (crime) Saurabh Srivastava who was camping here for investigations, confirmed to TOI that so far "no electronic evidence or mobile phone records" had been found in the Jaipur blasts.
"We managed to trace the email owning up the Jaipur blasts, to a cyber cafe in Ghaziabad and got a sketch made of the man, but apart from that we have got nothing out of mobile phone records yet," said Srivastava.
Comparing the two operations, he said that in Jaipur at least 10 people may have been used to plant the bombs on bicycles which were bought the same day. Nine bombs went off in Jaipur killing 68 people. In Ahmedabad at least 13 of the 19 serial blasts which killed 52 were 'cycle bombs'.
The Ahmedabad email has become even tougher to trace after the police found that the internet router of a building in Sanpada, Mumbai, was tampered with to infiltrate the Wi-fi network and hack it to send the email.