LeT operatives admit involvement in Bangalore blasts

The two LeT militants,handed over to India by Bangladesh,have confessed to their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore last year.

The two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants,handed over to India by Bangladesh,have confessed to their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore last year,a top police official said on Thursday.

Nazir Tarian Dabede (25) alias T Nazir told interrogators of the Meghalaya Police and BSF that he had planted the bombs along with a person called Rahim,the official,who is also a part of the interrogation team,said.

Nazir,a bomb expert,and another LeT operative Siraj Shamshudeen Shamas (33),both from Kerela,were handed over to the BSF by Bangladesh’s BDR yesterday. The BSF had tipped off its Bangladesh counterpart about the militants’ presence in that country.

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The duo,however,have so far not admitted their involvement in the attack at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) in 2005,the official,who did not wish to be named,said,adding they would be interrogated again on Thursday.

Nazir and Siraj had been in Bangladesh for about a year and they are understood to have revealed vital information regarding their “bases” in south India.

Nazir’s name surfaced in February last year when Mohammed Yahya Kammukutty,31,hailing from Mukkom in Kozhikode district of Kerala,was arrested as part of a probe into a SIMI network in Karnataka.

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