Email sent from Ghaziabad

The Centre is grappling hard to establish the links between Tuesday's serial blasts in Jaipur with the earlier blasts in cities like Varanasi, Hyderabad and Mumbai, working on the lead it has received from an email purportedly sent by militant outfit "Indian Mujahideen" to various television channels late on Wednesday night claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts.

Hours after the email was sent, the security agencies traced it to a cybercafe at Sahibabad town of Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, bordering New Delhi. While the owner of the cybercafe has been detained by the special task force of the UP police for questioning, the "source" of the email is yet to be traced.

Security has been stepped up along the Delhi UP border and at courts and railway stations throughout the national capital region even as the police raided a house in UP's Baghpat district in its hunt for one Shamim, chief of the western UP unit of Harkat-ul Jehadi Islami (HuJI) of Bangladesh, who is suspected to be involved in the Varanasi serial blasts of 2006. The raid, however, did not yield any results.

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