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