Chandigarh: Crucial links have been established by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing terror blasts in the India-Pakistan peace train near Panipat last month and the Haryana police are claiming they are close to a breakthrough in the case.
Investigators from Haryana, Delhi and Mumbai have zeroed on Indore city in Madhya Pradesh from where it has been established that the suitcases used in the twin blasts were bought.
The role of some activists of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from Indore and nearby areas was also under scanner.
Sixty-eight people, mostly Pakistani nationals, were killed and several injured in the low-intensity blasts on the Samjhauta-Attari special train February 18 near Panipat town in Haryana, 165 km from here.
A senior Haryana police official said concrete links had been established about the material related to the blasts but the real culprits behind it were yet to be pinned.
"We should be in a position to give vital leads in this investigations within two-three days if everything falls into place," the police official said on condition of anonymity.
After tracking the suitcases used for keeping explosives in the train to Indore, the tailor who stitched the inner lining and a shopkeeper who sold the plastic bottles in which the liquid flammable material was kept have been identified. They are said to have given some vital clues to the investigators.
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