A day after security at railway stations in the city was beefed up after a news channel received an e-mail regarding planned bomb blasts at Churchgate station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Borivali railway station, the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday said that the source of the e-mail, which turned out to be a hoax, was traced to a location in Rajkot. The ATS also stated that further inquiries in the matter would be conducted by the Gujarat Police.

“The e-mail sent to a news channel yesterday, and later forwarded to us, has been traced this afternoon to an IP (Internet Protocol) address in Rajkot. We are not going to send a team there, as the case will be investigated by the Gujarat Police. It does not seem like this e-mail was sent by the same group who have been sending out the Ahmedabad and Delhi terror e-mails,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (ATS) Hemant Karkare.

The e-mail had been sent from the account ‘almujahidin2001@yahoo.com’, and warned of bomb blasts at the three major suburban stations between 8 pm and 10 pm, on Thursday.

Karkare also stated that no Mumbai links had been found yet to the militants killed in the encounter at Jamia Nagar in New Delhi.

“We have been constantly in touch with the Special Cell of the Delhi police after their operation, and so far we have not got any information cocerning possible local links to the militants involved,” said Karkare.

Meanwhile, the ATS has collected certain documents bearing the handwriting of SIMI activist Abdus Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer, the alleged mastermind of the Ahmedabad and Delhi serial blasts, in order to match them with the handwritten  signature ‘Al-Arbi’ in all five terror e-mails sent out by the Indian Mujahideen.

“We have some documents that serve as samples of Tauqeer’s handwriting. We have submitted them to handwriting experts, to see if they actually match with the signature on the Indian Mujahideen e-mails. However, we are yet to receive an opinion from the experts,” said Karkare.