Bangalore police seize Kafeel’s hard disk

Stepping up its investigations into the foiled terror plot in UK, the Bangalore police have seized the hard disk of the computer from the residence of suspect Kafeel Ahmed in the City.

Addressing a press conference here yesterday, Commissioner of Bangalore City Police Neelam Achuta Rao said the police have been able to seize a computer hard disk of a “high capacity” and other materials left behind by Kafeel Ahmed before he left for UK in May this year.

“The hard disk is being examined to ascertain the content and check for any connection to the failed terror plot in UK or other terrorist activities all over the world”, he said.

Rao said the police will also look into the hard disk for clues to Indian Institute of Science (IISc) attack in Bangalore during December 2005. “We have an investigation continuing into the IISc attack. We will see if there is any connection to it”, he added.

Claiming that the Federal and the State investigative agencies were working in close co-ordination to probe the alleged links of Kafeel Ahmed and his brother Sabeel Ahmed with terrorist outfits, Rao said the probe, so far, had not been able to establish any connection between the duo and the strike at IISc.

Responding to a question, Rao said the Bangalore police had no information about the key accused in the Glasgow terror plot Bilal Ahmed making a visit to India. “As of now, we have no information of his visit”, he said.

However, the investigating teams were trying to probe whether the trio had any network in India and Bangalore in particular.

Though Rao maintained that the authorities were still examining the materials seized from Kafeel Ahmed’s residence, police sources said claimed that the investigating agencies had stumbled upon compact disks featuring documentaries on the plight of Muslims in regions like Chechnya and Bosnia. E-mails exchanged by the two brothers with others are also being scanned for any connection to terrorist outfits, the police sources added.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has convened a meeting of senior police officials in Bangalore on Tuesday to review the security scenario in the State in the light of the Bangalore connection to the UK terror plot.