Israel Embassy blast: Investigators take cue from previous attacks
probe into the blast near the Israel Embassy widens, investigators have started looking for clues from two similar incidents in the past: An IED blast in the same locality in 2021 and an attack on an Israeli diplomat in 2012.
The National Investigation Agency probing the 2021 blast case has been unable to make any breakthrough so far. In February 2012, when a diplomat was targeted in Chanakyapuri, similar attempts were made on an Israel embassy staff member in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and another in Bangkok.
In all these cases, the suspects were of Iranian origin. ET recalls the case details of the three attacks in Delhi.
2012
A magnetic explosive device was used for attacking an Israel diplomat in Chanakyapuri on February 13, 2012.
The probe into the case revealed the involvement of an Iranian national who was allegedly helped by an Indian journalist named Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi. The journalist was later granted bail by the Supreme Court.
The first breakthrough into the case came two days after the attack, when a person of Iranian origin, Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, was detained in Malaysia over suspicious movement along with another Iranian national, Nourouzi Shaya Ali Akbar.
The two men had applied for Indian visas at the Indian embassy in Iran from where the investigators obtained their mobile numbers. The probe, according to investigation agencies, revealed that the two mobile numbers were in touch with an Indian phone number issued in the name of Houshang Afsar Irani, who was in touch with Kazmi.
Questioning of Azmi revealed that the plans to attack Israel diplomats started in January 2011 when he went to Tehran, Iran, according to investigators. The attack was allegedly planned as a retaliation to Israel
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