Five days after four terrorists were gunned down in an encounter in Ahmedabad, investigation has revealed that the terror web they spun may have stretched from J-K to Gujarat, and from Gujarat to Bangalore. Police also suspect that the militants may have moved to Vatva to target Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Manoj Sashidhar said: ‘‘They selected Vatva as their hideout as it is close to Maninagar, the CM’s constituency, and they could study his movements.’’ The four Harkat operatives were in Surat when Modi was there for a poll campaign last December.

The police are also not ruling out the possibility of the four’s involvement in the attack on Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, on December 28.

The probe has revealed that Azaan, one of the four slain terrorists and a deputy commander of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), had come to Gujarat in September 2005. After the terrorists set up base in Vatva, they went to Valsad, Surat, Gandhinagar, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Agra, Kota and Ajmer. Sashidhar said based on cellphone records, visiting cards, bills and train tickets recovered from the encounter site, the city Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) have got ‘‘important facts about the movement of the four in and outside Gujarat.’’

Sashidhar said, ‘‘One of the four terrorists, Furqan Iqbal Ahmed, had visited Bangalore and procured a driving licence and LIC policy from there on a fake identity and address.’’