One encounter, two suspected militants killed, five alleged militants arrested, eight chargesheets filed, and unlimited controversy.

That is the Delhi Police’s story of its year-long probe into the serial blasts that rocked the Capital on September 13 last year. Two hundred officers are part of the investigation team of the Special Cell, which lost Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in the encounter at Batla House six days after the blasts.

While the Special Cell gunned down suspected Indian Mujahideen militants Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid in that encounter, the city police have arrested five others who they claimed were part of planning and execution of the blasts.

Post-encounter, police claimed the new militant outfit had played the main role in previous previous blasts at Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, and Hyderabad last year. The police in these states subsequently arrested other men who they claimed were part of the militant outfit.

Exactly a year since the blasts at crowded areas in Barakhamba Road, Connaught Place, Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash-I left 26 people dead and 50 injured, a look at how the case has progressed:

Arrests, chargesheets

* Post-encounter, the Special Cell arrested alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) militants Mohammad Saif, Zeeshan Ahmed, Saqib Nisar, Mohammad Shakeel and Zia-ur-Rehman.

* On December 17, 2008, police filed the first chargesheet against the arrested five in the Karol Bagh blast that took place in an autorickshaw.

* On December 18, the second chargesheet was filed against the same five in the GK-I market blast case.

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