(Tomorrow: Mumbai train blasts and missed opportunities)

Blasts in Delhi before Diwali

Date: October 29, 2005

Terrorists struck in the Capital on the eve of Diwali on Saturday triggering three explosions in two markets (Sarojini Nagar and Paharganj) and near a bus in Gobindpuri

The arrests

Tariq Ahmad Dar of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Mohammed Fazili and Rafiq Shah — all charged for executing the blasts. But there are glaring loopholes in the case

Status of Investigation

Five arrested, one killed — and clueless about the other 38. The police files may mark the Delhi blasts as a case that has been worked out but most of the big fish remain untraceable, and evidence is hard to come by even in the case of those arrested.

Losses

Dead 53
Injured 100
Most were Diwali shoppers