[5][9] The bombings took place on the evening when the new Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was scheduled to visit the Tilak Smarak Ranga Mandir, a play theatre in the city, for an award ceremony.

[5] Initially, the bomb disposal squad experts suggested that the moist weather may have reduced the intensity of the blasts.

[10] However, upon further investigation, it was found that while the bombs had been constructed to cause maximum damage and take many lives, a design flaw had prevented them from fully exploding.

[13] There were no individual suspects even on 2 August, primarily due to the fact that the CCTV cameras near the blast sites were non-functional.

Policemen were seen searching for evidence with bullet proof vests, when they should have been using bomb suits and explosive trace detectors.

[16] By 3 August, based on the leads obtained from the owner of a cycle shop that had sold the bikes, the investigators were looking for two suspects aged between 25 and 30 who spoke Hindi and Gujarati,.

[17] While inspecting CCTV footage, investigators found a man, closely resembling Yasin Bhatkal, Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, coming on a bicycle and parking it opposite the Sai Service petrol pump.