Two youths picked up for questioning in Jaipur

The Rajasthan police picked up two youths for questioning during state-wide searches launched by it in the aftermath of a string of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru.

The two, hailing from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad and Muzaffarnagar districts, were picked up from a hotel in Udaipur on Sunday night, inspector general of police (Udaipur) N R K Reddy told PTI.

Their antecedents were being verified, he said, adding that there was so far no evidence of their involvement in the bomb blasts in the two cities. The youths used to practice black magic, Reddy added.