5 Bomb blasts in Pune on Junglee Maharaj Road

[Blackwater]

Do all bomb blast's come with some sort of a message.

yes shinde is from pune. Become home minister today. political rivals taking revenge


its not terrorist attack but political revenge

 

[SPIEZ]

yes shinde is from pune. Become home minister today. political rivals taking revenge


its not terrorist attack but political revenge

That is very obvious in this case. In fact terrorism has been ruled out.
But what about all other blasts?

 

[Blackwater]

That is very obvious in this case. In fact terrorism has been ruled out.
But what about all other blasts?

well all i know our intelligence agency are khasi (useless)

same city pune had german bakery blast 4 yrs ago....... ki hoya aaj tak???

 

[Sikh_warrior]

i would say the ATS and other security/intel agencies should not drop their vigil thinking these are jus low intensity or just a greeting message for new home minister....

....these could be dry run for bigger bangs!

 

[Daredevil]

CT Alert: This is a ploy by UPA to divert attention from Team Anna's fast just like Northern India power grid failure.

 

[Ray]

I take that whoever is behind it, is indicating that they can act and not to take them for granted!

Just a warning and hence, low intensity, not to kill many!

Just to warn.

 

[Tronic]

Do all bomb blast's come with some sort of a message.

Yes. Terrorism is to further political goals.

 

[The Messiah]

CT Alert: This is a ploy by UPA to divert attention from Team Anna's fast just like Northern India power grid failure.

 

[ani82v]

Why terrorists would bother to give a warning?

 

[lcatejas]

Our ATS or security agencies/intel are clueless as always.. because .. they are busy with there efforts on solving/Making CD sandals ... How to crush Anna Movement..what other parties are doing ... Ministers are busy with how to secure votes ... What scandal next for party fund... how to make public Chu@$A
etc.. As@#$ Bast#%$

 

[Ray]

It is time the citizens themselves get vigilant because the agencies that are to ensure the citizens' security are suffering with intelligence (in every sense of the word) insecurity.

 

[Ray]

Why terrorists would bother to give a warning?

These bombings are a warning from the terrorists that they should not be taken as having gone away.

 

[ani82v]

True, citizens have to be alert but that along with high security vigilance still can't avoid the attacks.
When they want to do it, they can still do it.

We haven't raised their cost of inflicting the damage so high yet.

 

[Ray]

True, citizens have to be alert but that along with high security vigilance still can't avoid the attacks.
When they want to do it, they can still do it.

We haven't raised their cost of inflicting the damage so high yet.

I was travelling recently to Bombay by Duronto.

We were in AC I.

The fourth seat was occupied by a bank chap, who had been upgraded.

He was carrying just a handbag.

After sometime, when the train had stopped for an operational halt at a station, he got down.

For hours he did not return.

Being uncomfortable that the man was carrying just a handbag and had suddenly vanished for a long time, I called the attendant and asked him if the man had got down at the last station where we had a short operational halt. I told him to remove the bag since an official can remove luggage but not a co passenger and put it in the toilet and put water on it so that if there was a bomb, the mechanism could thus be, hopefully, 'disarmed'.

The attendant called the Conductor and after much debate rang up the Station Master at the last halt. The Station Master informed that no one had disembarked and gone out of the station.

We searched the other compartments and the man could not be found.

I then took the handbag to the toiled and was about to soak it in water, when the man suddenly appeared, having been discovered by one of the railway chaps who had gone out to search the other compartments.

He was sheepish! He had gone to chat with his friends in the compartment from where he had been upgraded to AC I.

I let the man have it for being irresponsible by not informing anyone, especially in these days of terrorists and unattended luggage as to where he was going and how long he would be away and where we could find him.

Though it was a false alarm, had it been a real bomb, then you would not have seen this post!

We must remain vigilant and not trust issues as we used to do before.

One good thing, however, is that if you leave your luggage unattended, it will not get stolen!

 

[Predator]

when the people in power are pampering terrorists, blasts like these are expected

 

[Blackwater]

Guess what.??????? the CCTV around that area were not working


Mera Bharat Mahan,AB to Annna bhi baemaaan

 

[Yusuf]

Bomb design flaw averted major tragedy in Pune

PUNE/NEW DELHI: Less than 24 hours after minor blasts rocked Pune, security experts on Thursday were stunned by evidence that the serial explosions were part of a full-blown terror attack, which providentially went awry, preventing mass casualties on the city's bustling Jangli Maharaj road.

An official said a design flaw in the bombs caused them to explode partially and prevented the shrapnel from spreading.

Without naming any group, a top home ministry official in New Delhi said there were "credible leads" pointing to a "big plan" by a terror outfit. "Preliminary forensic result which is an outcome of the detailed examination of the two unexploded IEDs and nature of blasts shows that the bomb had all the ingredients to cause a much bigger impact and had the potential to take lives of many people."

In Pune, police bomb experts who supervised dismantling of the devices also said the four bombs placed on Jangli Maharaj road on Wednesday evening exploded only partly. Had these and the two that were defused gone off fully, the damage caused would have been "major", they said.

A bomb disposal officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TOI each bomb contained two or three detonators, a nine-volt battery, a circuit, a timer, ball bearings and a yellow sticky substance. "The design of the bombs was faulty, due to which they did not explode fully. The bearings were by and large intact even in the devices that went off. Had the bombs exploded fully, the bearings could have injured several people," he said.

The officer said at least five detonators did not explode. "We defused these detonators at our office at Shivajinagar," he said. The expert said a sticky substance covered the detonators, batteries and bearings in each bomb. "We have sent the substance to the state forensic laboratory for chemical analysis," he said. Police were probing whether the bombs contained ammonium nitrate, a powerful explosive. On Wednesday, police had said there were four blasts and one device had been defused before the timer could go off.

Sources in New Delhi, meanwhile, said the manner in which digital wristwatches were used as timers and the detonator circuits along with the way bombs were kept on three newly-bought bicycles, one dustbin and two polythene bags were similar to the technique adopted by the banned terror group Indian Mujahideen. The terror outfit had adopted a similar modus operandi in the serial blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi in November, 2007 and in Jaipur in May, 2008.

Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and home secretary R K Singh, however, remained reticent about the horrific revelations. "We have taken it very seriously," said Shinde, indicating that the low-intensity blasts were not being dismissed as a mere messaging by a terror group and the government was aware of a carefully-scripted plan.

"Since the blasts have taken place within an area of 500 metres and within a span of 45 minutes, it appears to be a coordinated act. I am sure there was a plan behind it," said home secretary R K Singh.

Meanwhile, Pune police on Thursday identified the shop from where two of the three new bicycles were purchased by the terrorists. Officers said two men bought the bicycles from Soni Cycle Trading Company at Phadke Haud, Budhwar Peth, around 11am on Wednesday, about eight hours before the first bomb went off. The police have questioned the owner of the shop, his brother and two employees and based on descriptions given by them, sketches of the two men have been prepared.

The shop owner also told police the two men were speaking Gujarati. A senior police officer from the crime branch told TOI that the shop was traced with the help of serial numbers embossed on the bicycles. "We searched several bicycle shops in the Phadke Haud area," an officer said.

The officer said police have also taken CCTV footage from a firecracker shop in Shaniwar Peth. "The shop owner has installed a high-resolution camera at his shop. The camera is facing the road. We are suspecting that the duo may have used the road in front of the shop."

Meanwhile, police are still questioning Dayanand Patil, the man injured in first of the blasts at Balgandharva chowk. Cops also questioned his wife, Satyakala, in Pune and recorded her statement. Police said Patil had visited either Jordan or Dubai in 2003. They have seized his passport and are trying to ascertain the reason for his visit abroad. Police refused to say whether he was being seen as a suspect in the blasts. Patil works as a tailor at a laundry on Shirole road, a few metres from Balgandharva chowk. He lives in Urulikanchan, 20 km from the city, with his wife and three-year-old daughter.

The Times of India on Mobile

 

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[KS]

Why terrorists would bother to give a warning?

Actually it seems they gave a warning, a letter was sent days before.

It looks like a revenge attack for the killings of Qateel Siddiqui in Yerawada jail where he was allegedly killed by hindu nationalist inmates.

‘Pune cops got letter warning revenge after Siddiqui murder’ - Indian Express

 

[natarajan]

If they dont find any victim just catch some RSS or VHP and brand it as saffron attack ,i think they will do large scale attack only