Delhi bomb: India High Court explosion kills 10
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Sanjoy Majumder says the explosion happened in an area where many people were gathered
A bomb outside the Indian High Court in the capital Delhi has killed 10 people and injured at least 61.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a "cowardly act of a terrorist nature".
The bomb was apparently placed in a case near the first security checkpoint at the court, where people were queuing for passes, officials said.
Investigators said they were taking seriously an email claim by the extremist group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) that it planted the bomb.
"It would be very premature to make any comment on the mail at this stage, but yes, that mail has to be looked at seriously, because Huji is a very prominent terrorist group," SC Sinha, Director General of India's National Investigation Agency, told reporters.
The email reportedly demands that a man sentenced to death for involvement in an attack on Delhi's parliament ten years ago should not be hanged.
The US state department says Huji is a terrorist organisation with links to al-Qaeda. The group has been accused of carrying out attacks in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The leader of Huji, Ilyas Kashmiri, was reportedly killed in a US drone strike in north-western Pakistan in June.
What a cruel deed it is!
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