“One is a Hindi newspaper while the other is in Gujarati. The police also recovered cuttings of a Telugu newspaper from the spot where the blast took place. Teams have been sent to all these places,” an official said.

The police have also turned the spotlight on a Madhya Pradesh arms dealer who worked with one Nafis Chishti, arrested under the Arms Act near the Ajmer Sharif dargah a few months ago. Nafis is currently lodged in Ajmer jail.

Bangladeshis interrogated by the Rajasthan police after the blast also appeared to have an MP connection and that was being looked into. Rajasthan Addl DGP (Crime) A K Jain said: “All angles and leads we are getting are being worked on.”

In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh DGP A R Puar confirmed to The Indian Express that a Rajasthan police team had arrived in the state to collect information from Ujjain and Ratlam towns. The police had apparently found explosives wrapped in two evening newspapers published from Ujjain and Indore. Puar said the Rajasthan team told him that newspapers from Ahmedabad and Uttar Pradesh were also found from the spot.

Ujjain SP Jaideep Prasad said a Rajasthan inspector spent a day in the town to explore possible links. Ujjain is one of the strongholds of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. The team did not make any arrest from Ujjain. Another team was in Ratlam.

Indore (IG) Rajendra Kumar said the Rajasthan team did not seek any help from the Indore police. A senior officer said the Rajasthan police did not have any concrete information but were in MP to explore possible angles.

After the Samjhauta Express blast, a Haryana police team spent a long time in Indore from where material for six timer-fitted firebombs was probably purchased. Nothing concrete emerged and, months after the blasts, police from the two states traded charges. While the Haryana police accused the local police of not cooperating, the MP police maintained they extended all possible help but the Haryana team was bent on exploring an angle which was not there.

Meanwhile, Eid at the Ajmer Sharif dargah was a subdued affair today. For the first time in nearly 800 years, Eid was only observed, not celebrated. While special Eid-ul-Fitr prayers were held and attended by thousands, the lights and decorations were missing. It was also the first time ever that the drums (nagaras) and jhanjh were not heard. Muzaffar Bharti, Secretary of the Dargah Hereditary Staff Association, said: “The mood at the dargah is still one of shock. We decided not to go ahead with the traditional music as homage to the two who lost their lives in the blast. Moreover, with such an incident happening here, we didn’t feel like playing instruments.”

Most people within the dargah premises did not even wish each other Eid Mubarak.