CCTV footage from area near blast site being collected: Police

Delhi Police are collecting CCTV footage from a wide swathe of area near the blast site, including along the route from Khan Market – where the Israeli woman had gone for lunch with her diplomat husband – to Aurangzeb Road crossing where the terror attack targeting her car took place Monday.

Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta said Tuesday that police are examining the CCTV footage along the route taken by the Toyota Innova – the Israel embassy car – from Khan Market area to the blast spot.

Tal Yehoshua Koren, an employee of the embassy, had gone for lunch with her husband, who is the defence attache, at Khan Market. They returned to the embassy on Aurangzeb Road, where the husband got off and Koren went out again – to pick up her children from the American Embassy School.

At the red light, as her car was waiting, the bomber stuck a magnetised sophisticated explosive on the rear of the vehicle. Koren suffered multiple shrapnel injuries.

She was operated upon to remove the shrapnel and is stable now at the Intensive Care Unit of the Primus Hospital in the diplomatic enclave.

Gupta said all the residential buildings and government offices situated along the route have been asked to provide their CCTV footage.

On the basis of CCTV footage collected from a few buildings on Aurangzeb Road, the police Monday evening detained around five people but let them off later after questioning.

A biker was detained on suspicion, but he was let off too, said Gupta.

The police chief said they are relying on the eye-witness account of a man, Gopal Krishnan, who was in the car just behind the Israeli embassy car.

As per Krishnan’s statement, Gupta said the Innova car was standing around 30 feet behind the red light.

“A biker reached near the car and sped away within a second after attaching something to the rear side of the car. Then an explosion took place,” said Krishnan in his statement to police.

He said he did not see the biker properly.