PTI
 
Varanasi, Mar 12: The two suspects, picked up in connection with the twin blasts here, on Saturday underwent an identification parade as the Uttar Pradesh government shifted Varanasi police chief who was away from the town when the terror strike took place.

Normalcy was slowly returning to the temple town with people carrying out their daily chores, four days after the twin blasts left 20 dead and over 50 injured.

The two suspects, Sadiq Ali and Ansar, whose faces resembled the sketches released by police on Thursday, underwent an identification parade at a hotel here, STF source said.

The two were picked up along with six others from a marketplace in Hardoi last evening.

Police officials, however, were tight lipped about the outcome of the identification parade and remained inaccessible to the media/ Under fire, the Mulayam Singh Yadav government transferred Varanasi police Chief Navneet Sikera who was away from the temple town when it was rocked by the blasts.

Principal Secretary (Home) Alok Sinha said Sikera had been replaced by Senior Superintendent of Police, Moradabad, G K Goswami.

Sikera had been sent to the office of the Director General of Police in Lucknow.

Sikera and Varanasi District Magistrate Nitin R Gokarn were not present in the city on the night of the blasts.

While Sikera and his deputy SP (City) Anant Dev were away attending a marriage at Saifai, ancestral village of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, Gokarn was on leave.