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{{short description|Terrorist attack in Delhi, India}}
{{distinguish|13 September 2008 Delhi bombings}}
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{{Infobox civilian attack
|title = 27 September 2008 Delhi bombing
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{{Terrorist attacks in India (since 2001)}}
The '''27 September 2008 Delhi bombing''' in [[India]]'s second largest metropolis left three people dead and twenty-three more injured, on an infamous Saturday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/27delblast1.htm|title=2 killed, 17 injured in Delhi blast}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/3-dead,-17-injured-in-Mehrauli-blast-in-Delhi/1/16293.html|title=3 dead, 17 injured in Mehrauli blast in Delhi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/seven-killed-15-injured-in-bomb-blast-in-delhis-mehrauli-area_100100797.html |title=Seven killed, 15 injured in bomb blast in Delhi's Mehrauli area |publisher=Thaindian.com |access-date=27 September 2008| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080930052723/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/seven-killed-15-injured-in-bomb-blast-in-delhis-mehrauli-area_100100797.html| archivedate= 30 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7639302.stm |
[[File:Mehrauli Bomb Spot One year after.jpg|thumb|Mehrauli Bomb Spot One year after]]
==The blast==
Eyewitnesses reported that the blast took place after two men in black dress and wearing helmets and riding a motorcycle dropped a [[Tiffin carriers|tiffin box]] in which the bomb was placed. A thirteen-year-old boy named Santosh, who was running an errand for his uncle, to fetch a crate of eggs, picked up the box in an attempt to return it to the bikers, but they refused and fled.<ref name=PTI>{{cite news|url= http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/terror-hits-delhi-again--bomb-blast-kills-boy/366683/|author=Swaha Sahoo|title=Terror hits Delhi again; bomb blast kills boy|agency=New Delhi|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=28 September 2008|access-date=28 September 2008|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140125013215/http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/terror-hits-delhi-again--bomb-blast-kills-bo/366683/|archivedate=25 January 2014 }}</ref> People nearby witnessed smoke coming out of the box and advised the boy to get away, but it was too late.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=4a51cda5-fddd-4865-ade1-8efdf2d8f6a8&ParentID=51b83e2a-2ed3-4d65-b113-f3efe14f670f&&Headline=%27Aapka+packet+gir+gaya+hai%27|title=Aapka packet gir gaya hai'|newspaper=Hindustan Times|place=[[New Delhi]]|date=28 September 2008|access-date=28 September 2008}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The resulting explosion killed the boy and injured 18 others. Santosh's mother Rekha was inconsolable. The locals of Ward No.8, shopkeepers by profession, could not contain their anger at the poor security arrangements and investigation, in spite of the five horrific blasts which had taken place on 13 September 2008, in four places in Delhi.<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/india/mehrauliblast/article4-340899.aspx Photos]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/two-dead-25-injured-in-delhis-mehrauli-blast/74473-3.html|title=Two dead, 25 injured in Delhi's Mehrauli blast |publisher=Ibnlive.com|access-date=28 September 2008|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080930055312/http://www.ibnlive.com/news/two-dead-25-injured-in-delhis-mehrauli-blast/74473-3.html|archivedate=30 September 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that seven of them were in critical condition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701365.html?hpid=topnews|
==Aftermath and reaction==
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''[[The Hindu]]'' reported that usually crowded shopping areas in Delhi bore a deserted look during the weekend as a consequence of the blast.<ref>{{cite news|title=Many give weekend shopping a miss|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1347286.ece|access-date=18 December 2015|work=The Hindu|date=28 September 2008}}</ref> According to the ''[[Indian Express]]'', shopkeepers had kept away from the flower market in Mehrauli, the blast site.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Mehrauli-struggles-for-normalcy/367091 |title=Mehrauli struggles for normalcy|work=The Indian Express|date=29 September 2008|access-date=30 September 2008|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081001190312/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Mehrauli-struggles-for-normalcy/367091|archivedate=1 October 2008 }}</ref>
Following the blast, the security arrangements for the [[Australian cricket team]], currently on a [[Australian cricket team in India in 2008-09|tour of India]], was tightened.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/indvaus2008/content/story/371501.html |title=Australia not seeking venue change yet |publisher=
==Investigation==
According to ''the Hindu'', two men on a motorcycle wearing black shirts, jeans and helmets planted the bomb.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/28/stories/2008092861040100.htm |title=Blast in Delhi again, two killed |date= 28 September 2008|access-date=28 September 2008|location=Chennai, India| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080930005855/http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/28/stories/2008092861040100.htm|archivedate=30 September 2008 |work=[[The Hindu]] |url-status=dead}}</ref> Investigating authorities revealed that [[ammonium nitrate]], [[sulphur]] and [[potassium]] were used to cause the low-intensity blast.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE48R0RR20080928?sp=true|
A team of [[National Security Guards]] was deployed to assist the investigating authorities.<ref name="timesofindia1"/> [[Delhi Police]] had detained five persons at the [[Indira Gandhi International Airport]] whom they suspected of having a role in the blast. According to ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', the police also selected several [[Bangladesh]]is for interrogation.<ref name="ht">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=51b83e2a-2ed3-4d65-b113-f3efe14f670fTerrorStrikesDelhi_Special&&Headline=Mehrauli+blast:+Police+suspect+Bangladeshi+link|title=Police suspect Bangladeshi link|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=28 September 2008|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080928125158/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=51b83e2a-2ed3-4d65-b113-f3efe14f670fTerrorStrikesDelhi_Special&&Headline=Mehrauli+blast%3A+Police+suspect+Bangladeshi+link| archivedate= 28 September 2008 | url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[NDTV]]'' said that there was a possibility that the attack was not carried out by the ''[[Indian Mujahideen]]'', which claimed responsibility for the serial attacks in Delhi two weeks before, since the bomb which went off in Mehrauli was quite different.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080066938M |title=NDTV.com: Delhi blast: Arrival of a new terror module?|publisher=Ndtv.com |access-date=28 September 2008}}</ref>
Police in [[Faridabad]] had identified and held the man who sold the [[SIM card]] to the terrorists from which the attackers had made a call to media agencies threatening another terror strike moments before the blast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080066965 |title=NDTV.com: First arrest made in connection with Delhi blast |publisher=Ndtv.com |access-date=28 September 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101205527/http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080066965|archivedate=1 November 2008}}</ref> The police also detained the person whose cell phone was used to make the call.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mehrauli blast: Manhunt launched|url=http://timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=16964|access-date=18 December 2015|publisher=Times Now|date=28 September 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930151802/http://timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=16964|archivedate=30 September 2008}}</ref> The police across NCR had increased patrolling at various access points.<ref>{{cite news|title=Capital alert, access points blocked|url=http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=16927|access-date=18 December 2015|publisher=Times Now|date=27 September 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002011007/http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=16927|archivedate=2 October 2008}}</ref>
The [[Deputy commissioner of police (India)|Deputy Commissioner of Police]] for Delhi, Alok Kumar, said, "The evidence collected so far indicates that the bomb had no timer or detonator and it was low-intensity. We do not think it was linked to the Indian Mujahideen or any other terror group. In the recent past, in the stretch between the IP flyover and the Andheria road-junction in Mehrauli, there have been instances when bike-borne youths have dropped bombs in crowded streets."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=3594a875-4778-44c5-8b89-6f206390895b&ParentID=51b83e2a-2ed3-4d65-b113-f3efe14f670f&&Headline=Mehrauli+blast%3a+Despair+%26amp%3b+hope |title=Mehrauli blast: Despair & hope |work=Hindustan Times
The police also reported that they had received a call before the blasts saying, "Save Delhi, there will be blast!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a511c51b-4d0b-431c-9704-f7c43b03e5b1&ParentID=4eda9fa6-e2f5-4ea6-bd8e-dff5d4159f26&&Headline=Man+made+a+call+to+Delhi+police+about+blast%3a+Faridabad+police |title=Man made a call to Delhi police about blast: Faridabad police|work=Hindustan Times|date=28 September 2008|access-date=30 March 2012|url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081001165343/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a511c51b-4d0b-431c-9704-f7c43b03e5b1&ParentID=4eda9fa6-e2f5-4ea6-bd8e-dff5d4159f26&&Headline=Man+made+a+call+to+Delhi+police+about+blast%3A+Faridabad+police|archivedate=1 October 2008 }}</ref>
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==See also==
*[[List of terrorist incidents
*[[Jaipur bombings]]
*[[Bangalore bombings]]
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