Innocent TCS techie terror suspect
By Mahesh Arora 

Gyanesh Kumar Jha, a software engineer at TCS, Gurgaon turned out to be a terror suspect for a little while when his black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle was found abandoned in a no-parking zone of Delhi airport on Saturday evening.  This was the same day the two terrorists who had placed a bomb in Mehrauli market killing innocent people had come riding a black colored Pulsar.

The color of Jha's Pulsar was also black and it was found with two helmets on it.  His bike was confiscated and brought to the Police Station as police suspected it to be the bike used in the bomb blast that rocked Mehrauli market on Saturday in Delhi killing one boy and an elderly person. The eyewitnesses had said that the youths who had placed the bomb in a packet had come riding a Pulsar motorcycle. None of the witnesses had noticed the registration number of the bike. Police suspected that the terrorist could have escaped to the airport area and had abandoned the bike here.  Suspecting it to be the same motorcycle,  the police zeroed in on Jha after retrieving his details from the motor vehicle Registration Authority and reached his residential address as well as his TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) office looking for him in the midnight.  Based on the details, the police raided a multi-storied house in DLF City where a number of IT engineers were living as tenants. Jha had purchased his Pulsar bike (HR26 AR 5857) in April 2008 giving his address as U Block DLF City when he was living at the same address before moving out to new location in Palam Vihar.

None of the occupants at his old address said they knew Jha. It added to the suspicion of the police officials who then reached his TCS office in Udyog Vihar in Gurgaon. The police officials got to know from the office only that Jha had been living in a rented accommodation in Palam Vihar.  However, by this time, Jha came out of the airport and found his bike missing. As he reached the Police Station to report his missing bike, he was detained and questioned. Jha told the police officials that he had gone to airport to see one of his friends off and had parked the bike in no-parking one by mistake.  The police found him to be a genuine person who had no connection with the Mehrauli blast. Jha as well as his bike were released by the police. However, before his release, the police of Delhi and Gurgaon had been hunting for him as a possible terror suspect and the TV news channels had flashed the recovery of the black Pulsar bike as breaking news.

In the fight against terrorists, police are rightly not taking any chances.