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The truth about the Nanded blasts
BY A STAFF REPORTER | Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:31:32 IST
Documents reveal the investigating authorities are not ready to explore the root of an emerging network of terror groups within the country
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Citizens and human rights activists including local activists from Nanded district, under the chairpersonship of Kolse Patil, retired Judge of the Mumbai High Court, have conducted a detailed investigation into the second Nanded bomb blasts that occurred on February 10 this year.
Preliminary findings of the Concerned Citizens Inquiry (CCI) - an independent scrutiny was shared with the media yesterday. A technical assessment from experts on the clues and pointers on the site was also shared by the inquiry.
At about 12.15 a.m. on February 10, 2007, 28-year-old Pandurang Bhagwan Ameelkanthwar of Rangargalli, Nanded died on the spot after he lifted �biscuit boxes�. His cousin, Dnyaneshwar Manikwar, 30, who rented space from a retired head master, was also present at the spot when the incident took place and sustained 72 per cent burn injuries and was first admitted in S.G.G.M. Hospital, Nanded.
In this extremely fragile condition he was transferred to J.J. Hospital in Mumbai where he also succumbed to his injuries on February 16, 2007.
�The Nanded police lodged a complaint of a petrol driven fire. However, the state police is dismissing the possibility of a bomb blast in haste. The police though have lodged a complaint of a petrol driven fire by the owner of the place, who is also claiming insurance money. But the on-site significant pointers provide clues and detailed video shootings of a blast at the site as well as photographs and findings by technical forensic experts that are with us. That�s what we have shared today,� said Teesta Setalvad, social activist and convener of CCI.
Speaking further about the findings, Teesta said, �Shocking documents related to the first Nanded bomb blasts of April 2006 have also been investigated by 'Communalism Combat' and provided to the 'Concerned Citizens Inquiry'ol.
These documents reveal a question on the part of the investigating authorities, who are not ready to explore the root of an emerging network of terror groups that are linked to drive political outfits within the country.�
Commenting on the investigation by CCI, Judge Kolse Patil said, �The CCI commissioned a team of experts to visit the site and give their findings after inspection and examination as to what sort of substances may have been used for such an explosion. Due to the sensitivity of the matter, the identities of the team have been kept confidential.
�The severity of the impact of a possible explosion by unstable and liquid organic substances cannot be ruled out. CCl�s Expert Analysis indicates that such substances are highly unstable, have an immediate impact of creating almost 1000 degree temperature and result in such a fierce chemical reaction that there is first an ignition, then flames and thereafter an explosion. The flames are at such high temperatures that a man can be burnt alive in 5-10 seconds.�
He added, �The whole gist of understanding and the conclusion point out that it is not a short circuit, neither is it a gas cylinder blast. On the contrary, it points to a preparation of a liquid bomb. It is a collection and combination of liquid inflammable substances, such as petrol, diesel, Nafta, salvant bomb, etc. which are the main ingredients to prepare and constitute a bomb.
�Glycerine, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, blades, glass, nails, gelatine sticks are also similarly to make crude liquid Molotov cocktails that have a powerful impact. Kerosene and diesel are also used. Recent blasts in the Samjhauta Express have also shown similar techniques being used. These chemical compounds are unstable but need to be inquired from licensed and authorised sources. There is something amiss in the police investigations of the Nanded blasts.�
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