Hazaribagh, April 23: A team of five forensic experts from Ranchi today visited Habibi Nagar, where six persons were killed and one was injured in an accidental blast on April 17, even as Hazaribagh police are trying hard to trace those who were involved in the post-explosion hush-up act, including hurried burial of the victims' bodies.
Also, the district administration today announced that curfew would be lifted from tomorrow morning.
During the two-hour-long recce, the forensic team collected several samples, including blood-stained clothes, and clicked photographs of the walls of the house, where at least seven persons were preparing bombs, in this densely populated mohalla, barely 1km from Lepo Road - the epicentre of last Sunday's Ram Navami clashes.
The team members also scanned a field in front of the house and found a torn jeans carrying blood marks.
The names of six dead -Md Ekram, Shahnawaz alias Chhotu, Sonu Ansari, Mintu, Muzaffar and Mujahid - surfaced earlier.
The injured, undergoing treatment at RIMS, Ranchi, has been identified as Ifteshar, alias Vicky.
With the progress in the investigations, the names of two more accused, Bhaijan and Irfan, have come to light but police are yet to find out their whereabouts.
Sources said chances were high that the duo were also killed in the blast and were buried in the same graveyard with the five others.
However, investigators are facing challenges in verifying the names and addresses of the victims as the people of the locality have fled the area following the blast.
SP Akhilesh Kumar Jha admitted that no one was available in the mohalla to reveal anything about the people who lived in the house, where explosion took place, and its immediate neighbourhood.
"The way everything was covered up - right from disposing the bodies at the graveyard to providing treatment to the injured, it seems local people were involved. Police need the names of those who helped the victims and other details to get property attachment orders from court. But, there is no one in the locality at the moment who can help police in this regard," Jha added.
Jha added that the forensic team had collected samples with blood stains from the spot today. "We will go for DNA profiling of the collected blood samples and match them with the victims' bodies to be exhumed from the graveyard."
Sources claimed that the police had also managed to identify the owner of the house as Mumtaz Ansari, the brother of Md Ekram, whose body was discovered first on Wednesday from a septic tank of an under-construction house, some 100 metres from the bomb den.
Further investigations revealed that Mumtaz had built the house around four months ago. But, Ekram, who used to drive a bus of a prominent school in the town for the last four years, had been using this house for illegal activities.
"We are now looking for Mumtaz to find out whether he was aware of Ekram's activities," said a police officer involved in the probe.
The investigations have also revealed that Shahnawaz and Mujahid had criminal antecedents. Sonu Ansari used to run a bicycle repairing shop whereas Mintu had a bakery shop and Muzaffar was a car mechanic.
Deputy commissioner Mukesh Kumar and SP Akhilesh Kumar Jha today reviewed the situation in the town and decided to withdraw curfew from tomorrow morning. However, police will maintain vigil in sensitive pockets.
