Ambani bomb scare: Cops trash letter by Jaish-UL-Hind claiming responsibility, hunt on for credible lead

Security personnel outside Antilia on Altamount Road. Pics/Ashish Raje

Even as the city cops struggle to make a headway in the case of explosives found near Mukesh Ambani's home Antilia, a handwritten note, apparently by one Jaish-UL-Hind claiming responsibility for the crime has surfaced. Senior officers trashed the claim, calling the letter fake and that no such organisation exists.

A Scorpio with gelatin sticks was found near Antilia home on February 23

So far, the police have CCTV footage showing a side face of a suspect with hood apart from details about the involvement of two vehicles.

"Due to pandemic, masks have become must for everyone and the suspects took advantage of it by covering the entire face with a hood. That's why we are not getting their clear face in the footage we have tracked so far," a Crime Branch official said.

An Innova, believed to be a part of the explosive plot, was captured on CCTV at Mulund toll naka. Witnesses have claimed to have seen it on Bhiwandi-Nashik highway. "The vehicle has not crossed the Padgha toll plaza which is the next toll booth after Mulund," said the officer. The cops suspect the occupants either used an internal road to sneak into Nashik or Gujarat or are hiding near Mumbai. "We also noticed that the registration number plate of the Innova was repeatedly changed," he added.

The suspects who placed gelatin sticks in a Scorpio near the Ambani home may not have used phones.

The so-called Jaish-UL-Hindi, which had said it was behind the planting of an IED outside the Israeli embassy in Delhi recently, called the Mumbai incident a "trailer". The note, branded fake by cops, asks the industrialist to "just transfer the amount thats already been told to you to this Monero address".