Police and intelligence services in both Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi are hoping that a careful forensic investigation of an e-mail sent to television stations could propel the probe into Friday’s terror bombings in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad.

Based on the timing of the e-mail, investigators believe it was most likely sent after the author received telephonic confirmation that the court complex bombings had begun. While the first bomb in Lucknow went off at 1.10 p.m., the e-mail was despatched at 1.18 p.m. News agencies and television stations began broadcasting news of the terror strikes just before 1.30 p.m.

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