Click to play videoBangalore: India’s IT city has a population of more than 60 lakh. Besides being home to India's booming IT hub, the city has also long been on the target of terrorists.
“Population is vast and so the terrorists find it safe heaven to hide themselves. Generally, a person would not cut the branch on which he is sitting. So they would not indulge in violence in Karnataka per say,” says former DGP, B S Sial.
On December 28, 2005, terrorists opened fire at the Indian Institute of Science, killing one and injuring four others. This was the first time Bangalore was seen as a terror target.
But police say terrorists had started grouping in the city at least 10 years prior to this attack.
Between 1995 and 2006, the Karnataka police arrested more than two dozen Bangalore-based youth who were allegedly trained in terrorist activities in Pakistan.
Mohammad Arif Ashfaq, an alleged Lashkar operative, involved in the Red Fort attack of 2005, had revealed during interrogation that a terror cell had been set up in Bangalore to target Azim Premji and Narayana Murthy.
On February 22, 2008, Yahya Kamakutty a software engineer and an alleged SIMI activist was arrested in Bangalore.
But more frightening were the revelations made by Syed Imran bilal, an accused in the Hyderabad blasts in September 2007.
Officials say a bigger threat to the city comes from local Kannadigas and not the conventional militants. These are supposedly well-educated students who have been indoctrinated into joining terror groups. An example: Sabeel Ahmad, who accused of masterminding the Glasgow bombings.
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