Now, SIT probe focuses on car used in Maur blasts

BATHINDA: Running against the time to complete the probe before the deadline set by the Punjab and Haryana high court ends on January 18, new special investigation team (SIT) probing Maur twin bomb blasts of January 2017, on Thursday kept probe’s focus on a car used in the blasts.

A team from Maruti Suzuki is learnt to have visited Maur police station and inspected the car that was used in the blasts. The cops kept the police station gates closed throughout the day while the team checked the car. The police are learnt to have written to the firm in this regard.

Besides, four persons who used to supply vehicle parts in the workshop of Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters at Sirsa were also called for questioning by Bathinda range Inspector General (IG) of police Arun Kumar Mittal.

The developments came a day after the SIT recorded statements of some of those injured in the blasts on Wednesday. Last week, the SIT had issued advertisements seeking information about three followers of the dera named as accused and have been declared proclaimed offenders in the case. The advertisement has appeared in newspapers on January 16.

IG, though didn’t divulge the details, said that Maruti Suzuki team visited the police station to check the car while four persons were also called for questioning in Bathinda.

Seven persons, including five children, were killed while 23 injured in the bomb blasts on January 31, 2017, at Maur, which took place in a Maruti Suzuki 800 car at an election rally by Congress candidate Harminder Singh Jassi, four days before the voting for the Punjab assembly polls. Jassi had a narrow escape in the incident. Jassi’s daughter is married to son of now jailed dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

TEAM OF MARUTI SUZUKI INSPECTS CAR USED IN BLASTS, FOUR VEHICLE PART SUPPLIERS TO DERA WORKSHOP ALSO QUESTIONED BY SIT