An email sent on behalf of a terror group claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts was traced to a cyber cafe in Sahibabad area of Ghaziabad and its owners were detained early today though Rajasthan police said they had doubts about the authenticity of a supporting video clip and were trying to verify.

In Jaipur, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje voiced doubts about the the genuineness of the video clip — it showed a bicycle with an alleged bomb strapped to it and parked in a crowded market — saying it could be an attempt to mislead investigations.

A previously unknown militant outfit calling itself Indian Mujahideen, in an email and video clip sent last night to some TV channels, claimed responsibility for the blasts in Jaipur.

The email gave a frame number (129489) of the bicycle which was planted at Chhoti Chaupad near Kotwali in Jaipur and warned of more such attacks in the country.

But IGP (Jaipur Range) Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the clip may have been the handiwork of mischievous elements.

“We studied the clip in detail and found several contradictions in the claims made through the email. The clip shows a blue bag on the bicycle. But the bag we recovered from the spot of a bomb that was defused was khaki in colour and of a different make. There is another discrepancy: the clip shows the bag tied to the carrier of the bicycle but in all the blasts, bags were tied to handles of the bicycles,” he said.

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