Bodh Gaya blasts: Will consider CISF protection for religious places now, says Home Minister

Bodh Gaya: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde who is in Bodh Gaya today at the site of the multiple blasts along with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, told the media that a thorough probe is on but "we don't want to arrest anyone in a hurry." He also said that the government will consider deploying Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for protection at religious places.

Following are the highlights of what he said:

• Such blasts are alarming and a matter of grave concern for the country
• We sent NSG, NIA teams to work with the local police
• Yesterday Bihar government wrote to the Central government to hand over investigation to NIA which we agreed upon
• 10 of 13 bombs went off
• We have visited all the blast sites
• We are investigating on the involvement of three-four people, cars in this incident
• Delhi Police had given information in October
• Police DIG had taken a review on July 3 and spoken to the local security force here
• The moment the blasts occurred, we sent teams immediately
• We sent the teams by air but due to thunderstorms and bad weather in between, the flight had to turn back and come back the following day
• We will investigate this incident from all angles possible
• We don't want to arrest anyone in a hurry
• We want to go into details and arrest the main people responsible
• We had asked for security at Shirdi Sai Baba temple, at Jama Masjid. We will discuss this in further detail
• We have applied top two teams, NSG and NIA to investigate