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In wake of the recent terror blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad in India, Delhi Police have alerted operators of guesthouses, cyber cafes, telephone booths and taxi services to keep a register on their customers as a security measure ahead of Independence Day.

Installation of CCTVs is asked in cyber cafes, hotels and guesthouses while telephone booth operators will maintain a register to record the entry of every customer.

Owners of guesthouses and hotels were also asked not to allow their guests to use hotel address for getting a mobile connection, said a senior police officer.

Police have asked the operators to keep a watch on every customer and report about any suspicious people. Police instructed them not to allow the service to any one without proper identification.

The city police are also installing 34 CCTVs in crowded areas from August 10 to 15; the official said adding that high security personnel are deployed on the borders and in the city.

“The deployment of paramilitary personnel has already started. Personnel from BSF, CRPF and RAF will be on streets,” the official said telling about their preliminary preparation for security on the Independence Day.

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After recovery of 18 bombs and confiscated 2 explosives laden cars from Surat in the last two days, the scenario continued on the third day with discovery of 2 more bombs found in the Heera Bazaar and another on a treetop in the Kapodara area of Surat. Bombs were later defused successfully by the bomb disposal squad.

19th live bomb was found on the busy Varacha Road in the morning followed by next in the Prestige market shortly after Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited the diamond city.

After visiting the places from where live bombs were recovered, Modi said that terrorists were waging a proxy war against India and stressed on the need to unite as a country to fight the menace of terror.

Modi said,” the country needed to fight the “proxy war” being waged by terrorists.”

He announced a reward of Rs 51 lakh for information leading to the terrorists involved in the Ahmedabad serial blasts and the planting of bombs in Surat. He said with terrorists targeting cities like Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mumbai and Hyderabad, it seemed that their intention was to cripple financial activities in the country.

Modi also announced rewards of Rs 21,000 each for those who gave information about live bombs and cars laden with explosives found from Surat and Ahmedabad on Sunday. Police said it was similar to the 18 found yesterday from in and around Varacha, where several diamond processing units are located.

The bombs planted in Surat had integrated circuits (IC), Deputy Director of Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL), Surat, S M Darji said. It was the first time when ICs are used in bombs.

25 teams of ATS have started their investigations into the Ahmedabad blasts. The Mumbai crime branch has also assured its assistance to the ATS teams investigating the blasts case.

Meanwhile, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HuJI) has also claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad blasts. Gujarati TV channel TV9 on Wednesday received a letter from HuJI in which they claimed responsibility for the blasts.

Earlier, it was reported that the Indian Mujahideen had also written e-mails to several media houses claiming responsibility of the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

In the wake of rise in toll of recovery of bombs, strict security measures are being taken in the city.

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A threat by e-mail is received to blow up the landmark buildings including West Bengal assembly and Calcutta High Court, in Kolkata tonight. The bomb disposal squad and the security has been alert after receiving this information and intensive search operations are going to locate any possible explosives in the area.

The e-mail has been received by a TV channel. City police urges people not to panic as they were looking into such threats of explosions at various vital installations in the city.

We have certain information that that there are explosives in some of the vital installations in the city and we are putting in all our efforts to find out the truth involved in the information. So far, no explosive has been found”, Additional Commissioner of Police Subrata Narayan Sarkar told reporters.

Police said, ”We are trying to trace the sender of the e-mail by locating the remote server in the TV channel.”

Special police arrangements have been made at the High Court and the gate of the Assembly. All the senior officers are on the road and ther is tight security near the surrounding areas also.

A few words of the e-mail told by the police reads: “Some of the important areas of the city like Park Street, Salt Lake and Nicco Park and some landmark buildings like the High Court and the state assembly would be blown up by 10.30 pm tonight.”

Till now there is no such news. Sarkar said “the city police force have been put on alert and we have asked the bomb squad to check whether there is any explosive”.

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It seems Surat, the Diamond city came under terror radar. So far 18 bombs have been recovered from various areas in the Diamond city and all of them have been safely defused. Police said that bombs are recovered one after another in a short span of time from different parts of the Varaccha area housing most of Surat’s diamond processing units.

Most of the explosive devices were found from residential localities and the diamond workshop areas generating a wave of panic in the city. Police Commissioner R M S Brar on Tuesday urged the people not to visit the crowded places and to be more vigilant in the surrounding areas.

Three bombs were recovered in the morning followed by fifteen similar incidents in next a few hours. The first bomb was found near the Ladeshwar Police Chowky in the Varaccha area of the city. Another live bomb was recovered from a market in Santosh Nagar. The other explosives were reportedly recovered from the Mini Diamond market in Varaccha area of the city.

Three bombs were deactivated in the Mini Diamond Market area, three in Labeshwar, Santoshinagar and Matavadi localities and three under the Varacha-Kapodra flyover. A bomb was found handing from a tree in Matavadi while in Labeshwar it was left in an abandoned bag.

Gujarat police detained three men for questioning in connection with the serial blasts. Abdul Qadir, Hasil Mohammad and Hussain Ibrahim were detained near Limbi on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway in Surendranagar district while they were leaving Ahmedabad soon after the Ahmedabad serial blasts that took 49 lives and left over 145 injured.

It was suspected that they are linked with outlawed SIMI and ‘Indian Mujahideen’. Interrogation is still going regarding this issue. Police said they were questioning SIMI activist Abdul Halim, who was arrested on Sunday but declined to give any details on what he has revealed so far.

Contents of the defused bombs have been sent to the forensic science laboratory for analysis and high alert had been sounded in Surat.

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Three more live bombs are detected in Surat on Tuesday morning from the busy Varachha Road and Santoshi Nagar area. The bomb disposal squad has successfully defused two bombs. Earlier, One bomb was diffused in the city yesterday and two explosives-laden cars were also recovered on Sunday to add the panic.

According to the recent information, a sketch was issued by police in connection with the blast. Police is trying hard to find the person. Till now, police is failed to get any major information.

On Tuesday morning, first bomb was found at Varachha Road, near the Ladeshwar police station while two others were recovered from a market in Santosh Nagar. Surat police officials rushed to the site soon after receiving the information. Reportedly a detonator was planted in the area, which could have gone off causing minor damage to the surroundings.

Two of the bombs were defused while attempts are underway to defuse the third recovered in Santoshi Nagar.

Meanwhile, the police have given a clean chit to the American national who was suspected to be involved in Ahmedabad blasts. He is living in a flat in Navi Mumbai with his family as a tenant. His e-mail id was used to send the threat mail to television news channels minutes before the Ahmedabad serial blasts on Saturday. The clean chit was given after the police verified the American’s claims that his e-mail id and IP address had been hacked to send the threat mail.

3 Kashmiris have been picked up by police from a guest house in Mumbai’s Bhindi Bazaar to interrogate regarding the blasts.

The police will also interrogate an RTO officer in connection with the detention of three persons yesterday, who were traveling from Surendranagar to Surat in a car. The police had recovered Rs 85,000 in cash and British currency worth Rs 2 lakhs hidden beneath the seat of their car.

Enquiry and interrogation is going in connection with the blasts happened in recent days. Ahmedabad serial blast killed 49 people and left many injured while Bangalore serial blast killed two. All the blasts are of low intensity. India is under stress because of these blasts.

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Five persons were injured in a minor blast in the parking lot of a Gadkari Rangaytan auditorium in Thane in Maharashtra on Wednesday.

It was reported that the blast occurred just before the Marathi play Aamhi Paachpute was about to begin. the entire place has been cordoned off, said the police.

Incidentally, Aamhi Pachpute was also targeted earlier in an incident in Vashi, the satellite town of Mumbai.

On June 1, an alert citizen called the police after he saw an unidentified bag kept in an auditorium just before the play was about to begin. The bomb squad diffused the bomb before it could cause any damage.

It was claimed by some right wing organisations that Hindus are targeting the play as it ridicules the Hindu religion.

Further investigation about the cause of the blast is going on. Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil got in touch with the Thane police officials, who informed him that a police team has already reached the site to ascertain the nature of the blast, sources in the state home department said.

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