There is also CCTV footage from the Metro stations at Central Park and Greater Kailash-I market which show the IM operatives leaving the area after planting the bombs. Timings on the CCTV match with the explosion timing.
These are part of the evidence in the draft chargesheet readied by the Delhi Police for the September 13 Delhi serial blasts case in which 26 people died and over 100 were injured. The chargesheet is expected to be filed in a Delhi court on or before December 17 when the 90-day remand period for the five IM operatives, arrested from Batla House, gets over.
Atif was said to have videographed all the locations himself before planting the bombs there. The Chandigarh-based Forensic Science Laboratory has confirmed that these video clips were taken from the recovered mobile phone.
The Delhi Police, in its chargesheet, will be linking the network of the five IM operatives to the blasts in Jaipur and Ahmedabad as well. The cellphone IDs of terrorists in Gujarat and Delhi have matched and call detail records show calls being exchanged between IM operatives located in Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi before and after the blasts.
The police have also got hold of fake identity cards used by the terrorists, bank account details, and photographs of all IM members saved by Atif in his laptop, the logo of the Indian Mujahideen, emails, inflammatory literature and CDs shown as part of indoctrination.
The Delhi Police, which registered five FIRs in the serial blasts case, arrested five IM members — Mohammad Saif, Zeeshan Ahmad, Zia-ur-Rehman, Saqib Nisar and Shakil — after the shooting incident at L-18, Batla House on September 19, in which Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma of the Special Cell was killed.
Of the five FIRs, four are expected to be clubbed in a collective chargesheet. These are the blasts in Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash. The incident being left out of this chargesheet is the India Gate/ Tilak Marg incident since it is apparently not linked to these accused.
The Delhi Police claim that in Karol Bagh, Shakil planted a bomb in a three-wheeler; Zeeshan along with Sajid (he was killed in Batla House) planted a bomb in a dustbin on Barakhamba Road; Khalid (absconding) and Saif planted bombs in garbage bins outside Regal Cinema; Junaid (also absconding) and Atif planted bombs in the Greater Kailash-I market. Zia and Saqib Nisar are also likely to be named in the chargesheet as co-conspirators since they assisted in planting the explosives.
All the accused are to be charged under IPC Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 121 (waging or attempting to wage war against the Government of India), 121 A (conspiracy to commit offences under Sections 121), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 427 (mischief causing damage), Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosives Substance Act and Sections 10, 12 and 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Other than these five, the Special Cell has also arrested Mohammad Sadiq and Qayamuddin Kapadia (whose custody was taken from Mumbai Police last month) and a supplementary chargesheet is likely to be filed against them.
Details of the draft chargesheet, accessed by The Indian Express, reveal that the Delhi Police have a lengthy list of 250 witnesses in the case. The witnesses include owners of damaged vehicles, rag pickers who saw the accused planting bombs, victims, forensic experts and police officials.
A key police witness is Moolchand, the three-wheeler driver whose vehicle was hired by Shakil, after which the bomb exploded in Gaffar Market.
Officials said that all the statements of witnesses, circumstances and evidence collected by them have corroborated with the Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jaipur police investigations.
But officials said they have not yet decided on invoking MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) against these arrested IM operatives.
The IM module of 14 members, police said, was based at Batla House for about six weeks before the September 13 blasts, when they split in groups to plant nine bombs at various locations in the Capital.
The chargesheet will also mention travel details of the IM members. The police have traced most travel documents booked in the name of accused Atif and Saif (they travelled in the name of Rahul Sharma and Pankaj Kumar) to Jaipur, Ahmedabad (before the blasts there) and Udupi (Karnataka) to carry explosives from one Shahrukh there. There is also a record of Saif’s stay in Hotel Broadway in Udupi.
The police have also found a black bag and a bucket in which explosives were kept. Defused bombs and forensic reports also form part of the evidence. The police have also got an AK-47 and two pistols recovered from Batla House.