The first anniversary of the bomb blast in Hyderabad's historic Makkah Masjid, that killed nine, was marked Sunday by a mutli-religious prayer meeting as well as a peace rally in the old city of Hyderabad. Attention was, however, focused on the fact that the police has so far not been able to bring the culprits to the book. People marched from Charminar to the Madina building under the banner of peace committee shouting slogans against the terrorists condemning the blast in the public places and places of worship. They also demanded the action against those responsible for the blast inside the Mosque. Several other organizations have also conducted prayers and protest meetings Sunday. While the AP Civil Liberties Monitoring along with the other social groups is holding an all faith prayer outside the Masjid later Sunday evening, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has convened a meeting to protest the police firing, soon after the blast, on the people who had come out of the mosque. The firing had claimed five lives. The police had made elaborate security arrangements in the sensitive places of Old City including around the Masjid, and Charminar, Saeedabad and other places. Additional police pickets were deployed and patrolling was increased to ensure peace. Meanwhile, the Hyderabad city police commissioner B. Prasad Rao said that while the police had established the hand of Harkatul Jehad-e-Islami behind the blast, nobody directly involved in the blast was arrested. “We have not been able to arrest the people who had brought the explosives or planted them”, he told this correspondent. He pointed out that both the cases of blast as well as an unexploded bomb was handed over to the CBI but it has also neither arrested anybody. Prasad Rao said that the police had arrested a few conduits who had procured passport and sim card on the basis of forged documents. __
