Police have detained about 350 people for questioning in connection with the Bombay train bombings, officials said on Thursday amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people in Mumbai.
Most of the detentions were made overnight in Malwani, a north-eastern suburb of Mumbai, said police Inspector S Goshal. He said none of them has been formally arrested or charged, and they were rounded up only for questioning to help with the investigations into Tuesday's serial bombings.
...those arrested include known thugs, gangsters and trouble makers, who might have information about the culprits.
The Mumbai police and Anti-Terror Squad of the police is really trying to find the culprits. Security has been increased all over the country. However, the question is will the victims of these blasts get justice?
In 1993 Bombay bombings, 250 people were killed, and there was enough evidence to point the involvement of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, with Abu Salem and many others. Many hundreds of people, predominantly Muslim, have been arrested and detained in Indian courts and are undergoing or awaiting trial. It's been 13 years now, but there has been no result. The cases are still going on in the Indian courts. Abu Salem was extradited to India in 2004, and it was only in March 2006 that charges were framed against him. However, it will probably take years until his case is decided in the court.
Is this going to happen in this case also? Will it take a couple of decades until we get somewhere with the investigations? Or will the police do something different and be really quick in getting the culprits and putting them to trial? Also, what I still don't understand is, why is Mumbai police handing this terrorist attack? In USA, such cases would automatically be investigated by federal investigation agencies, probably FBI and not city police considering the intensity of the attack, then why doesn't CBI, CID or some other investigation agency like that investigate? After all, they are more efficient at it and better equipped to handle such cases, right?
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