New Delhi, July 19: The conspiracy behind the February 13 Israeli embassy car bombing here has an international link, the Delhi police told a city court on Thursday while seeking additional time for the probe. The links of “the conspiracy were not confined to Indian territory but these were found spreading abroad”, the police told chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav.
According to sources, the police told the court that it was collecting information about Iranian suspect Houshang Afshar Irani who was in contact with Syed Mohammad Kazmi and had links to a similar blast in an official Israeli vehicle in Tbilisi, Georgia, sources said, adding that investigators claimed that Irani was in contact with Kazmi and Georgia bombers.
The police claimed that information regarding call details related to suspects, including Irani, was required to be obtained from Georgia, Thailand, Malaysia and Iran.
Irani visited India twice. In his last visit, he stayed in a hotel at Karol Bagh, the police believed to have told the court. The police claimed to have recovered an explosive device from the ceiling of Irani’s room in the hotel similar to the bomb used in the Israeli embassy car bombing, the sources said.