Bengaluru, April 16 (IANS) The probe within the Rameshwaram cafe blast case has revealed that the preliminary plan of the terrorists was to blow up a bomb on the premises of an IT park within the tech hall of Bengaluru metropolis, sources mentioned on Tuesday.
The arrested males have additionally confessed that due to the excessive safety, they may not plant the bomb on the premises of the IT parks.
The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) arrested suspected bomber Mussavir Hussain Shazib and mastermind Abdul Matheen Taha not too long ago in Kolkata.
Sources mentioned that the suspected terrorists wished to focus on one of many IT parks within the Whitefield IT hall initially to hit the picture of Bengaluru referred to as the IT capital of the nation and draw worldwide consideration.
Probably the most prestigious and one of many oldest Worldwide Tech Park Bengaluru (ITPB) campus in Bengaluru is positioned in Whitefield. Hundreds of software program professionals work right here and it’s thought-about an icon of India’s IT success story.
Many extra IT corporations and IT parks are positioned within the area. Nonetheless, as the security and vigilance ranges are like that of the worldwide degree in ITPB and different tech parks, the suspected terrorists couldn’t plant bombs in any of them. The sources mentioned that the suspected terrorists additionally carried out analysis to plant bombs in Particular Financial Zones (SEZ) of main cities within the nation.
The suspected terrorists wished to focus on techies and create terror within the mindsets of software program professionals. The accused knew that such an incident would dent the picture of the nation at a world degree.
After failing to sneak contained in the IT parks, the suspected terrorists labored on a plan to focus on techies. The Rameshwaram cafe drew their consideration because it was positioned within the tech hall Brookfield locality in Whitefield. The identify ‘Ram’ in Rameshwaram cafe additionally drew their consideration and was one of many causes to focus on the cafe. A lot of techies go to the cafe and terrorists determined to plant the bomb there, sources defined.
The suspected terrorist Mussavir had visited the cafe on March 1 and planted the low-intensity Improvised Explosive Gadget (IED) on the premises. A number of employees members had been injured, a few of them grievously, within the blast, which induced intensive injury to the property.
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