The bomb blast case which occurred in Roorkee on December 6, 2014 that resulted in the death of a school-going boy was finally transferred to National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday. The police officer of the rank of Additional SP, NIA reached Gangnahar police station and following the direction of senior police officer, the case was handed over to the additional SP, said Gangnahar Police Station in-charge inspector DS Bhandari while talking to The Pioneer over phone. large number of local residents was questioned following the incident. Uttarakhand police sounded convinced that the blast had no local angle. Hence, the transfer of the case to NIA to have it probed from ‘outsider’ angle, if there is any.
Earlier, Haridwar SSP Sweety Aggarwal had said that teams from National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Special Task Forces from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand had visited the blast site and collected evidences. After this incident, several persons were questioned by the teams. However, no local angle emerged.
It should be mentioned here that a 12-year- old Tushar Dhiman had died after a bomb exploded under Gangnahar Police Station area in Roorkee around 50 metres from DAV (PG) College, Roorkee. Significantly, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) was holding a meeting to mark the anniversary of Babri mosque demolition near the place where the incident occurred. The bomb exploded near a petrol pump, Nehru Nagar when, on his way back home from school in the company of his two friends, the boy was playing with it, taking it for a ball.