Hyderabad: Security experts in Hyderabad are examining if Friday's bomb blasts at the historic Mecca Masjid during Friday prayers had any link with the sentencing of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
They are investigating if the blasts were a possible resonance of the pronouncement of sentence on the first batch of five convicts in the case.
The Designated TADA court on Friday morning ordered three years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 25,000 fine to the first batch of convicts in the case.
The Mumbai blasts followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. It had its echo here also with Majlis Bachao Tehrik (MBT), a breakaway faction of the dominant All India Majlis Iteehadi-e-Muslimeen (AIMIM), observing the anniversary of the demolition as 'Black Day' ever since.
Police sources said over the last few years, a militant organisation called DJS tried to make inroads as a 'strident champion of Muslim causes,' charging both AIMIM and MBT with going soft on the issue.
The DJS was reportedly responsible for provoking violence on the anniversary of the demolition, a few years back.
With Intelligence Bureau cautioning on the possible entry of two modules of Lashker-e-Toiba and Bangladesh fundamentalists after the blast at the Commissioner's Task Force Office, in which a 'human bomb' died, the Andhra Pradesh Police had been looking at the possible contacts they could have established with the local support.
However, security agencies are trying to probe whether the blasts at Mecca Masjid had any possible link with terrorists.
The timing and the venue had led to suspicion these elements could have used the occasion of delivery of verdict in the Mumbai blasts for greater impact - at least for garnering maximum publicity.
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