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Poor Muslims Cite Fear of Backlash After Blasts in Historic Indian City
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Singh added that the police were trying to "be sensitive in questioning of the Bangladeshi community."
Terrorism experts said they were treating the video seriously but cautiously.
"Many a time, this is just to camouflage, to take you off the track in the investigations," said an intelligence officer in New Delhi who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "New groups crop up overnight and claim responsibility. They have no past records or history."
Many Jaipur community leaders said they were proud of residents for staying calm. Muslims and Hindus alike donated so much blood that local hospitals had to turn additional donors away. Neighbors attended interfaith prayer ceremonies.
But there was fear in the poor neighborhoods.
Some people pointed out that Indians had invited them in to provide cheap labor but that the government had recently cracked down and even started warning that it would deport illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
"Is this some sort of a joke?" asked Laskar, the cigarette dealer, as he watched neighbors work in the sweltering heat, digging water holes and rebuilding their homes. "All of a sudden India doesn't want us anymore?"
Correspondent Rama Lakshmi in New Delhi and special correspondent Ria Sen in Jaipur contributed to this report.
