The lone injured person in theAugust 1 serial bomb explosions here -- Dayanand Patil--discharged after treatment, is now being questioned further bythe ATS officials, who have taken over the probe from the citycrime branch, police sources said today.
Police have already stated that Patil, in whose carrybag, one of the explosives went off near the Balghandharvatheatre, was not under detention or arrest and was underroutine interrogation only to know the details of the events,leading to the blasts.
No headway has so far been made in the investigationsin a week after the explosions occurred.
A tailor by profession, Patil, who used to commutedaily from the nearby Uruli Kanchan village to Pune to work ina shop, was treated for minor injuries and a spinal cordproblem in the Sassoon hospital here, from where he wasofficially discharged on Monday night, hospital authoritiessaid.
Patil , however, was being taken to his native placeBidar in Karnataka by the ATS officials as part of the ongoinginvestigations into the minor blasts, sources said.
Meanwhile, still smarting under the impact of theblasts, in which, the terrorism angle has not been ruled out,police have appealed to people not to congregate in largenumbers on streets for the 'Dahi Handi' festival to celebrateJanmasthtami festival tomorrow.