Varanasi: The Varanasi twin blasts suspects, who were detained by Uttar Pradesh police, have been released after eye-witnesses failed to recognise them.
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 on Saturday.
After the identification parade, the two eye-witnesses said that 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 said that 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.
Meanwhile, the Lashkar-e-Taiba has denied its involvement in the Varanasi blasts.
The Pakistan based militant outfit also denied claims that it had connections with those arrested in Goa and Uttar Pradesh in relation to the blast.
This statement comes four days after another group; the Lashkar-e-Kahar had taken responsibility for the strikes.
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