The lone injured person in the
August 1 serial bomb explosions here -- Dayanand Patil--
discharged after treatment, is now being questioned further by
the ATS officials, who have taken over the probe from the city
crime branch, police sources said today.
Police have already stated that Patil, in whose carry
bag, one of the explosives went off near the Balghandharva
theatre, was not under detention or arrest and was under
routine interrogation only to know the details of the events,
leading to the blasts.
No headway has so far been made in the investigations
in a week after the explosions occurred.
A tailor by profession, Patil, who used to commute
daily from the nearby Uruli Kanchan village to Pune to work in
a shop, was treated for minor injuries and a spinal cord
problem in the Sassoon hospital here, from where he was
officially discharged on Monday night, hospital authorities
said.
Patil , however, was being taken to his native place
Bidar in Karnataka by the ATS officials as part of the ongoing
investigations into the minor blasts, sources said.
Meanwhile, still smarting under the impact of the
blasts, in which, the terrorism angle has not been ruled out,
police have appealed to people not to congregate in large
numbers on streets for the 'Dahi Handi' festival to celebrate
Janmasthtami festival tomorrow.
