Sunday, March 12 2006 13:46 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Varanasi: The eye-witnesses have failed to identify the two suspects, detained by Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the twin blasts here, official sources said today (Mar 12,2006).

Sadiq Ali and Ansar, whose faces resembled the sketches released by police, were paraded a number of times before the two witnesses at a hotel in the temple town yesterday, the sources said.

After the identification parade, the two eye-witnesses said they were not the same persons who had allegedly kept a bag containing the bomb at Godaulia market on March seven.

The two along with six others were picked up from a marketplace in Hardoi on Friday evening.

Shopkeepers of Godaulia market were called to the hotel to identify the two suspects.

Police had prepared the sketches on the basis of information provided by the shopkeepers who had watched movements of the suspects.

Hardoi police station in-charge V K Mishra told sources the two had booked rooms in the rest house where they had checked in on Thursday in the name of Javed, a resident of Dulaipur in Jaunpur district.