By Girish Kumar Dubey
Identified as Lakim Ram, the detained person resembles one of the persons in the sketches prepared by the Delhi Police.
A powerful bomb had rocked Indian capital that exploded at the entrance of the High Court on Wednesday (September 07) and the number of fatal casualties till now has touched the figure of 13.
Police had released sketches of two men with short beards who were suspects in the attack. The government also issued a reward for any information related to the blast.
According to the top brass of police in Varanasi, Lakim Ram hails from Ajmer city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
Briefing the mediapersons, Maan Singh Chuahan, Superintendent of Police (SP), said they have informed all the investigating and intelligence agencies probing in the matter for further inquiry.
"There is person whose appearance is similar to the sketch released by Delhi Police in the case of the blast (at Delhi High Court on Wednesday, September 07). So interrogation is going on. Though we have not ruled out his involvement but we have asked the federal investigating agencies that are probing the case for further interrogation of the detained person," said Maan Singh Chauhan, SP, Varanasi district.
As per media reports, so far the sleuths probing the case have detained five suspects for questioning and one among them are the owner of an Internet café and his close associates, from where the e-mail claiming responsibility for a bombing was transmitted.
The owner, his brother and an employee of the Global Cyber Cafe at Kishtwar in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir were taken in for questioning.
The attack in the heart of the national capital has renewed concerns about the authorities' abilities to prevent attacks, particularly in sensitive, high-risk areas across the country.
However the authorities are probing the authenticity of an email claiming to be from the militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI) and sent from the Internet cafe.
The militant group, affiliated with al Qaeda and largely based in Pakistan but also with bases in Bangladesh, has claimed responsibility for attacks in India, but not in recent years.
Media outlets said a separate e-mail purportedly from the Indian Mujahideen, a home-grown radical group said to have support from Pakistan-based militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, had also claimed responsibility for the briefcase bomb attack.
Earlier, in the month of May, a low-intensity blast outside the same High Court in Delhi triggered panic but injured no one.
Over the past few years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government have come under intense criticism over their handling of militant attacks.
Though the government promised a radical overhaul of the security apparatus in India following the Mumbai attacks in 2008, critics maintain the reforms have been inadequate and in some cases abandoned.
Based on sketches of two suspects that the Delhi Police released in the blast case at the Delhi High Court, alert police personnel in the temple city of Varanasi in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh detain a youth named Lakim Ram.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL
VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 08, 2011) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)
1. A POLICEMAN STANDING OUTSIDE THE POLICE STATION
2. SIGNBOARD READING 'SHIVPUR POLICE STATION, VARANASI'
3. LIKMA RAM, THE SUSPECT IN DELHI BLAST, SITTING
4. PENSIVE FACE OF LIKMA RAM
5. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FEATURING THE SKETCHES OF SUSPECTS
6. LIKMA RAM SITTING
7. LIKMA RAM SITTING IN POLICE STATION
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) MAAN SINGH CHUAHAN, SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, VARANASI, SAYING:
"There is person whose appearance is similar to the sketch released by Delhi Police in the case of the blast (at Delhi High Court on Wednesday, September 07). So interrogation is going on. Though we have not ruled out his involvement but we have asked the federal investigating agencies that are probing the case for further interrogation of the detained person."
NEW DELHI, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 07, 2011) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)
9. MEDIA STANDING NEAR A SIGNBOARD READING 'DELHI HIGH COURT'
10. CROWD GATHERED AT THE BLAST SITE
11. POLICE VEHICLES AND FIRE TENDERS AT THE BLAST SITE
12. A VAN OF BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD AT THE BLAST SITE
13. POLICE PERSONNEL CARRYING DEBRIS IN A BLUE PLASTIC SHEET FROM THE BLAST SITE
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