BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad ( ATS ) dispatched its team to Jhabua for assisting police investigators into twin blast that killed nearly 100 people on Saturday morning. They are trying to zero in on a supply chain of explosive materials to prime accused Rajendra Kaswa’s illegal godown in Petlawad, said sources.

“We don’t suspect an organized crime or a terror angle behind this incident. It’s a case of comprising on safety norms. Explosive materials should have been stored in a magazine as prescribed by regulatory authorities,” said an ATS officer. He said efforts are being made to identify the supplier.

ATS had been keeping a close watch on suppliers of gelatine rods in Madhya Pradesh since seven Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) suspects were arrested Mahidpur, 50km Ujjain along with a haul of explosives in February 2014.

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“It’s not necessary vendors of explosives are involved in terror activities, but possibility that terrorists may buy it from them cannot be ruled out. We came to know from terrorists during interrogations how easily they manage explosive materials like gelatine rods and ammonium nitrate from vendors in remote places of state,” said another ATS officer.

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The anti-terrorist squad had recently swooped down on densely populated Nagori Mohalla in Mahidpur and arrested Juber, son of Mohammad Hussain, and recovered 200 detonators, gelatine rods and explosive powder which were hidden in a cooler.

Investigations revealed using this explosives, Ujjain module of (SIMI) led by Irfan Nagori had chalked out an explosive jailbreak blueprint to free their boss, Safdar Nagori, caged in a high security barrack at Sabarmati Central Jail, Ahmedabad. They had stockpiled enough ammunition to blow up prison walls, engage guards in a gunfight and storm out of the jail with Nagori.

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Irfan was arrested with explosives in January. Safdar is also a resident of Ujjain district in Madhya Pradesh and is in jail since his arrest by MPATS with 12 key operatives of the outlawed organization from Indore in 2008. Irfan Nagori and his team had even carried out a recce of Sabarmati jail and had collected a blue print of its premises.