CBI investigators are also trying to trace the roots of a “woman’s bag” with a ‘Made in Sri Lanka’ label used to hold one of the bombs and a man’s shirt found in one of the bags with the brand name ‘Potatoes’.

While the Hyderabad SIT, soon after the blasts, with the help of the West Bengal and Jharkhand police, tracked down the origin of one of the SIM cards used in the two Nokia 6030 mobile phones used as the timer, the leads only hit a dead end.

It was discovered that one of the SIM cards, bought in June 2006, from the mobile phone store of one Mohammed Sajjid in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district, was purchased by using the fake identity of Babulal Yadav, a resident of Rupnarayanpur in Jantara district.

On July 26, the CBI, with findings from the course of its probe, released a sketch and photograph of the two people believed to have obtained the SIM cards.

The sketch described a bespectacled man, aged 30-35 years, medium built, fair complexion, and a height of 5 feet 2 inches. The photograph described a medium-built person, of “wheat complexion,” 5 feet 6 inches in height, 25 - 30 years old.

Soon after the lookout was issued, the CBI was confronted by a man called Tarak Nath Pramanik, a yoga teacher in the Noida College of Physical Education, claiming that his photo had been wrongly released and that he had no link to the Mecca Masjid blast.

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