New Delhi, Feb. 14 (PTI): Union home secretary R.K. Singh today said there was no evidence till now to suggest involvement of any country in the bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here.

“We have no evidence to name any country. It’s premature to take any country’s name,” he told reporters, after being asked whether there was an Iranian hand in yesterday’s terror attack, which left four persons, including an Israeli diplomat’s wife, injured.

Singh said the investigators were yet to zero in on the people behind the crime and no material had suggested involvement of any particular country.

“We don’t have any idea who planted it. There is no material to show involvement of any country. The perpetrators behind the attack will be known only after the investigation is over,” he said.

Home minister P. Chidambaram termed the attack a terror strike and said a well-trained person had orchestrated the crime. He also said that “at the moment”, no particular organisation was being blamed.

Condemning the incident, Chidambaram said diplomats of every country were entitled to live and work in India in peace and security.

“It is quite clear that a very well-trained person has committed this attack. There is reason to believe that the target was the Israeli diplomat’s wife and, therefore, one has to proceed on the basis that it was a terrorist attack,” he told reporters here.

The home minister was speaking for the first time on yesterday’s terror attack in which an Israeli embassy car was targeted with a magnetic bomb that went off in a high-security area here.

Chidambaram said the Delhi police commissioner and the officer concerned (leading the probe) briefed him this morning about the incident. The home minister said investigation was on and it appeared that a motorcycle rider came from behind when the Innova car was stopped at a junction because the traffic signal light was red. He said the assailant had attached the device to the rear door of the car, the trunk area of the vehicle on the right side, and zipped past, presumably turning either left on Safdurjung Road or proceeding straight on Kamal Attaturk Marg.

Chidambaram said the closed circuit cameras located nearby were being scanned and the investigators had got some images, but so far there had been no clear image of any motorcycle or the number plate of the two-wheeler.

“At the moment, I am not pointing a finger at any particular group or organisation, but whoever did it, we condemn it in the strongest terms,” he said.

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