The chargesheet filed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in the July 11 serial train blasts, running into some 10,000 pages, was to be the answer to Pakistan’s denial of involvement in the terror strike.

Its delay meant India could not take up the issue with Pakistan during the recent secretary-level talks — it had no evidence to offer to either that country or the world — and it soon grew into a prestige issue for both sides.

But even after the ATS twice seeking extension for filing the chargesheet, the mammoth document fails to not only nail Pakistan but establish how, when, why and by who the serial blasts were triggered on that evening, killing 187 people.

The RDX trail

ATS SAYS: According to the chargesheet, the RDX used for triggering the seven Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) aboard the suburban trains was procured from across the border and brought to the city by alleged Pakistani national and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Ehsanullah. In May this year, Ehsanullah was escorted to the city by Kolkata-based operative Mohammed Majid Mohammed Shafi. He was brought from the Bangladesh border along with three other Pakistanis.

BUT: The ATS claims to have found traces of RDX from the house of Kamal Ahmed Vakil Ansari following his arrest on July 21 from Basupati village in Madhubani district in Bihar. Now, if the RDX was brought to the city by Ehsanullah from the Bangladesh border via Kolkata and he was not escorted by Ansari, how did the RDX linked to the serial blasts come to be found Ansari’s house in Bihar?

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