Pune:
"I request all autorickshaw drivers who may have ferried the passengers that day to German Bakery to contact me on my personal numbers and I assure you that your identity would not be disclosed," a desperate appeal by K P Raghuvanshi, the Chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).
Fifteen days after a blast ripped through German Bakery in Pune killing 17 people, the police are still looking for leads. The ATS chief is now appealing to people through FM radio to call him directly if they have any information.
The ATS chief wants information from all those who had visited the German bakery after 4 pm on February 13, the day of the blast.
An appeal has also been made to autorickshaw drivers who took passengers anywhere near the German bakery after 3 pm, till the time of the blast.
The ATS Chief has given his personal numbers: 9527039991 and 8806266626 and has assured that the identity of the informer will not be disclosed.
Close to 40 representatives of various auto unions as well as individual drivers, were also summoned to the police commissioner's office to gather information on terror suspects, but the police failed to get anything substantial from them.
The fact that the police have still not managed to even make a sketch of the suspect till now indicates that the probe is still in the dark.
But Pune's Police Commissioner says the probe is on track.
"It's not that we have reached 100 per cent but I would say 99 per cent and it's not that we are totally in the dark, or groping in the dark as some newspapers are writing," said Satyapal Singh, Commissioner of Police, Pune.
Despite those claims, the investigating agencies are now banking on the general public for clues that may give a concrete direction to the probe.