The Hindu

BANGALORE, Feb 11: Karnataka Director-General and Inspector-General of Police K.R. Srinivasan said here on Sunday that the suspected terrorists, whose module was recently busted by the Davangere police, had no specific targets in Karnataka.

Mr. Srinivasan told presspersons that the suspected terrorists were still in the initial stages of planning attacks when they were arrested.

Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh, who is supervising the investigations, said they had no definite inputs about the terror module having obtained a huge quantity of RDX from abroad. However, it had come to light that the terror suspects were “waiting for a consignment,” he said.

Dr. Singh said terror suspect Riyazuddin Nasir had not admitted to his complicity in the explosions in Hyderabad. “Neither during narco analysis nor during interrogation has he admitted that he was involved in the attacks,” he said. This was in response to reports in a section of the media that said that Nasir had confessed that he had taken part in the blasts at Mecca Masjid, Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat in Hyderabad.

Dr. Singh said Nasir and his arrested accomplice Asadullah Abubakar would be subjected to another round of narco analysis on Wednesday. He denied reports that a MBBS student from KIMS in Hubli, Mirza Baig, had been arrested in Gulbarga.

He said that though the police had found that some former activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were connected with the terror network, there were some others who were not associated with SIMI.

To a query, Mr. Srinivasan said