"But officials said earlier on Thursday that the prime suspect in Tuesday's bombings is Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist group that operates in Jammu and Kashmir

"Different indicators are there which hint at their involvement," said DK Shankaran, the top bureaucrat of Maharashtra. He refused to elaborate.

"The probe into blasts is on track and we should have something substantial soon," he said in a telephone interview.

Lashkar has in the past employed near-simultaneous explosions to hit cities, including an attack in New Delhi in October 2005 that killed more than 60 people. Lashkar was also named in an audacious attack on India's Parliament in 2001.

A spokesman for Lashkar, Abdullah Ghaznavi, has denied the group was involved in the serial train bombings across Bombay that left at least 200 people dead and more than 700 injured.

Also on Thursday, a man claiming to represent al-Qaida reportedly claimed that the terror network had set up a wing in Kashmir."

The Indian cops are good. They will have it nailed within a week, IMO.