BENGALURU: Forensic experts, who examined the spot at Principal District Judge Court Complex in Mysuru where a low-intensity bomb exploded on Monday evening, said that the blast was similar to the simultaneous minor blasts that had taken place at the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) party offices in Bengaluru about eleven years ago in August 2005.
An official in the Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) told Deccan Chronicle that in Mysuru, the miscreants had kept the explosive inside a pressure cooker. He termed the act a mischief and an attempt to create a scare.
Further, FSL experts who visited the spot, opined that the incident was similar to the blasts that occurred at the party offices of Congress and JD(S) on August 26, 2005. “After the inspection, the team has found some similarities between the Mysuru court incident and the blast at the offices of political parties,” he said.
Incidentally, the blasts at both the offices also took place in August. Explosions had taken place at both offices almost at the same time on a Friday evening. No casualties were reported in both incidents. In the JD(S) office blast, a windowpane in the toilet was damaged, while no much damage was reported at the Congress office, where the explosion took place in the cellar.
