Click to play videoBangalore: Planned terror attacks in Bangalore, training in bomb-making and links to the Indian Institute of Science terror attack - police sources say three men arrested in Bangalore are admitting to all of these and much more.
Mohammed Ghouse, alias Nazir, and Asadulla Abubakar were arrested last week in Davangere for bike theft and are now suspected to be part of a sleeper terror cell in north Karnataka.
Abubakar's statement to the police, now available with CNN-IBN, speaks of training in bomb-making and weapons.
The statement says the men were waiting for a consignment of 50 kg of RDX in January, and planned blasts after January 30.
Their target - the Director General's office in Hyderabad, temples in Secunderabad and Udupi, and airports in Bangalore and Hubli. Local police have officially not confirmed the admissions.
“So far we don't have any concrete evidence,” says Hubli commissioner Narayan Nedumuni.
But the case has now been handed over to the elite Karnataka Corps of Detectives (CoD).
The CoD wants to subject the two men and a third man named Mohammed Asif - an MBBS student, suspected to be involved in the plot - to a narco-analysis test. Sources say Nazir has revealed that he knew Abu Hamza - the man thought to be behind the attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in December 2005.
Police sources say this gang of terror suspects possibly planned blasts five months back - in August 2007.
But they had to put off their plans because their leader was killed in Pakistan. That was fortunate enough for Bangalore and south India - but we don't know how fortunate we'll be in the months and years to come.
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