It has also ruled out the involvement of a suicide bomber in blasts
Talking to media ATS Chief Rakesh Maria on Saturday said: “Investigations done so far and visit to the sites by forensic experts and investigators suggest that there was no suicide bomber,”.
ATS chief said, there were some good leads and the investigation was moving in the right directions.
He however said nobody had been detained so far.
Based on eyewitness’ accounts, he said a sketch of a probable suspect would be circulated among the investigators,.
Maria said that the experts have retrieved certain portions of metallic container which was used to store and carry the explosives.
“Ammonium nitrate, crude oil and digital timers were used in the explosive devices” he said .
Teams of Maharashtra ATS and crime branch had gone to various places in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi, West Bengal, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan as part of the probe into the blasts, Maria said, adding they were also taking the help of police of respective states and the central agencies.
Nineteen people were killed and over 130 were injured in the three blasts.
He said some of the CCTV footages were rough and in a day or two, investigators will be able to get better images from the CCTV cameras recovered from the blast sites, he said.
ATS questions owner of bike
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has quizzed the owner of a bike, which was found very close to the blast site in Zaveri Bazar in Mumbai, to put together the sequence of events on 13th July.
The bike belongs to one Ashok Jain who lives in Nagpada area. Ashok’s nephew Aniket Jain, whose father has a gold shop in Zaveri Bazar, said his uncle had parked the bike close to the blast site at around 3 pm on Wednesday while the blasts occurred at around 6:55 pm.
“ATS had called Ashok to its office at Nagpada yesterday with all the papers pertaining to the bike,” said Aniket.
The maroon colour Honda Activa bearing number MH-01-AS 718 was one of the bikes which was very close to the blast site and was partially destroyed in the bombings.
The insurance of the bike had expired two months ago. “We did not even realise that the insurance has expired,” he said.