NEW DELHI: The Delhi police Tuesday picked up at least 30 persons for questioning in connection with Monday’s bomb blast in a bus in this capital city that claimed four lives and injured many others.
The 30 persons rounded up included two witnesses of the assassination case of Indira Gandhi and two accused in the 1985 transistor bomb blast cases in Delhi.
A senior Delhi police officer confirmed that Gurbux Singh and Virendra Singh, the two defense witnesses in the Indira Gandhi murder case and Kartar Singh Narang and Mohinder Singh Oberoi, the accused in the 1985 transistor bomb blast cases, had been detained for interrogation at a special establishment in South Delhi.
He said police “strongly suspected” the hand of Punjab militants in recent bomb blasts in the capital.
Raids in several west and north west Delhi areas, that began early Tuesday continued till late night and a strict vigil was being maintained at border check posts and vital installations, police said.
Doctors attending on those injured in Monday’s bomb blast said the condition of six continued to be critical.
Meanwhile 1800 bomb triggering devices, including 300 high tech ones were recovered by the Delhi police from a Delhi transport corporation bus bound for Faridabad in neighboring Haryana in at the interstate bus terminal here on Tuesday evening.
The devices were recovered from an unclaimed bag lying inside the bus, a police spokesman said.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 11, 1990
