 Following Narayanan's remarks, the Union Home Secretary V.K.Duggal on Monday characterised the evidence as "very good [...] it is fairly solid evidence,".5
On 25 September 2008, Hindustan Times reported that "the Crime branch also learnt that the men [behind 2008 Delhi bombings] are those very operatives who had introduced themselves as Pakistanis to perpetrators of 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings.