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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12 MINS. 8 BLASTS. 60 DEAD

Eight bomb blasts triggered by terrorists over just 12 minutes on Wednesday night killed at least 60 people in the heart of Jaipur and injured 200.

The explosions, the first terror strikes in the Pink City, occurred in markets usually teeming with people and near the Hanuman Mandir in the walled city.

The bombings took place as India marked the 10th anniversary of nuclear tests conducted on May 13 in Rajasthan, but it was unclear if there was any link.

"According to the information I have received, 60 people have died and 150 have been injured," said Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje.

The Bangladesh-based Harkut-ulJehadi Islami (HuJI) is suspected to be behind the blasts, home ministry sources said.

The sources had earlier ruled out the use of RDX in the carefully orchestrated low-intensity explosions, which were believed to have been set off from cycles in areas frequented by tourists, including near the historic Hawa Mahal. But minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal, saying that the government felt there was a "foreign hand" behind the blasts, added later that the use of RDX was also suspected.

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