One arrested for Israel embassy car blast in Delhi

An Indian national has been arrested in connection with the February 13, 2012 blast in an Innova car belonging to the Israeli Embassy in Delhi. The 50-year-old man, claiming to be a journalist and identified as Syed Mohammed Kazmi, is the first person to be detained in the case in which the wife of Israel's defence attache, Tal Yehoshua, and the driver of the car were injured. He will be produced in the Tis Hazari court on Wednesday afternoon.

Kazmi has been arrested for allegedly being part of the conspiracy to plant the bomb on the car. He claims to have been writing for an Iranian publication and was arrested up after a probe showed that he had been in touch with the suspect who is believed to have stuck the magnetic bomb on Israeli embassy car.

Sources say police are close to a breakthrough in the blast case, which Israel has blamed on Iran.

According to the police a stick-on bomb was planted on the car by two men on motorcycle.

Israeli authorities pointed out that February 12 was the death anniversary of a senior Hezbollah leader, and the blast may not be entirely coincidental.