While Delhi Police has made much out of these calls, it knows that Dar was the official spokesman of LeT in the Valley since 2004. He was also the financial conduit of the LeT operatives in India after taking a 10 per cent cut in hawala transfers. Before this, Dar was a conduit for Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) in 2001-02 and was paid money into his private bank account in Srinagar from Dubai. He was picked up by the police in April 2005 and a sum of 70,000 Saudi Arabian rials was recovered. Dar used to withdraw the money through ATM, deliver to operatives and pocket his 10 per cent. Security agencies believe that Dar made this boast to Al Qama to get rewarded in cash for the Delhi blasts.

This stands to reason as despite having caught Dar, the Delhi Police have not been able to answer the following questions:

• Who were the bombers and where did they come from?

• Who got the RDX/ ammonium nitrate explosives to Delhi and who rigged up the devices?

• Where did the bombers stay or where did they escape?

Although Dar’s trial is on in court number 123 in Tis Hazari, the main accused was not in the Capital on the day of the blasts and had come to Delhi before in connection with his job as medical representative of a multinational company. Even Rafiq Shah, known to be an LeT sympathiser, was present at his college in Srinagar as five of his professors have signed an affidavit before the court to that effect. Rafiq has been identified by a witness as the bomber on board the DTC bus in Gobindpuri. In short, the investigations are incomplete and the jigsaw puzzle is far from complete.

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