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NEW DELHI: Indian federal investigators said they were studying an email purportedly from a militant group active in South Asia, claiming responsibility for Wednesday's bomb blast at Delhi's High Court.
The email, sent to Indian media, claimed to be from the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HUJI), which has been linked to previous attacks on Indian soil.
“We own the responsibility for today's blast at Delhi high court,” the message said.
It warned that other court facilities, including India's Supreme Court, would be targeted unless authorities repealed the death sentence on a man convicted of conspiring in a 2001 militant attack on India's parliament.
Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri, was sentenced to death in 2004 and is currently on death row.
S.C. Sinha, Director General of India's National Investigation Agency, said investigators were studying the HUJI claim.
“It would be very premature to make any comment on the mail at this stage, but yes that mail has to be looked at seriously, because HUJI is a very prominent terrorist group,” Sinha told reporters in New Delhi.
India and Pakistan have provided the main theatre of HUJI operations in the past, although an affiliate group is also active in Bangladesh.
