Another blast, another e-mail from Mumbai. Minutes before five blasts went off in New Delhi, the Indian Mujahideen sent an e-mail to a television channel, bragging about its role in the attacks. Like in the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts case, the e-mail was traced to an eastern suburb in Mumbai.

The blasts had the same footprints as those in Hyderabad, Jaipur and Ahmedabad, with the e-mail—threatening to set off nine blasts in the Capital—claiming that Saturday’s blasts are a continuation of the attacks in Gujarat and Rajasthan.

The rabid mail, which poured vitriol on Indian authorities, contained references to some very local Mumbai incidents—like a police raid on some Muslim colonies in Andheri—that were hardly noticed or reported even in the city. This, investigators said, showed that the perpetrators had good knowledge of events in Mumbai, possibly through a local network.

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare told The Sunday Express that they suspected Saturday’s mail was sent from a WiFi Internet connection at 201/202, Eric House, Commercial Complex, 16th Road, Chembur. The July 26 e-mail, sent minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, had been traced to the unsecured WiFi connection of US national Kenneth Haywood in the eastern satellite city of Navi Mumbai, but its senders are yet to be traced. Another terror e-mail sent weeks earlier was traced to Khalsa College in Matunga, another eastern Mumbai suburb.

The two-storey Chembur building, from where Saturday’s mail was sent, houses some garment shops, restaurants on the ground floor and has a pathology lab, a physiotherapy clinic and the office of a property developer on the first floor. On the second floor, 201/202, the residence of M.K. Kamat, was locked. The security guard said Kamat, his wife and son had been away all day. Investigators told The Sunday Express that Kamat owned Kamran Power Controls Pvt Ltd, which manufactures and exports electrical panels and control panel boards.

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