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THE ANTI-TERRORIST squad will jointly carry out the investigation with a baffled city police into the Kalyanpur blasts that claimed lives of two Bajrang Dal activists. An ATS team left for Kanpur late Sunday night and will remain here till the investigations are on. The DIG Kamal Saxena said the expertise of ATS would help the city police immensely in fetching answers to some crucial questions.

The top brass of city brass is virtually dumbfounded by the discovery of homemade grenades, timer devices and ammonium nitrate at a private hostel.A police official said there was no doubt about the association of victims Bhupendra Singh Chopra and Rajiv Mishra with right wing Bajrang Dal.

“Why they were having such kind of explosives, timer devices, circuits? This is all worrying,” said a top police officer.

“We want to make sure if it is not beginning of Hindu extremist,” he said.
The police search into victims’ background revealed Bhupendra as man of extremes. He had a long association with Bajrang Dal, which he served as city convener for long. About 10 years ago, he publicly tossed a number of bombs in Arya Nagar during the daylight.

Thereafter, he parted way with the outfit, said the sources. His partner Rajiv whose room had been turned into foundry, was kind of a spoiled lad. His relatives remembered him as a studious boy who got into bad company in college days.

So much so that his father, SS Mishra, a retired employee of Kesco, advertised his disassociation with his son recently. 

 He feared Rajiv’s deeds would one day land the entire family in trouble. Mishra had barred his entry into house but couldn’t stop him from visiting the vacant hostel room.

“He spoke hardly to anyone, even if someone tried he met with rudeness,” said a hostel inmate not willing to be identified.