Indian colonel linked to Samjhauta Express blasts

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad in India has claimed that a serving Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, who was arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast, was also involved in 2007 Samjhauta blast.

ATS said to the Nashik Court that the accused had used RDX to carry out the blast in which 68 people mostly Pakistanis were killed, Zee News reported.

Putting an end to all speculations, the anti-terror branch of Mumbai Police said that Army RDX was used and not sourced from across the border.

Purohit procured 60 kg of RDX from Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2006, a part of which is suspected to have been used in Samjautha Express train explosion and Malegaon blasts, Maharashtra police told the court on Saturday.

But what is intriguing is that the investigation agency has no clue about the remaining RDX.

This theory came in sharp contrast with the earlier investigation of Samjhauta blast, in which, it was concluded that not RDX, instead, IED and some liquid chemicals were used.