'Probe in right direction'

The Bangalore police on Sunday said the probe into the terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Science here was moving "in the right direction" and they were "very confident" of cracking the case.

"The investigation is progressing in the right direction.," police commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh said.

Singh said the police was "very confident" of detecting the case "as soon as possible" but could not set any deadline considering the "seriousness" of the incident.

He said several people had been questioned but none had been arrested. Describing the progress as "good", he said "we should succeed (in detecting the case)."

Asked about the possible link of terrorists involved in the attack on the special task force office in hyderabad in october to the bangalore terrorist strike, he said a team from bangalore was in the andhra pradesh capital but "no conclusion has been drawn (linking the two)."