Suspected terrorist confesses to role in IISc attack during narco analysis

Suspected militant from Jammu and Kashmir Imran Jalal, who was arrested by the Bangalore City Police earlier this month, is reported to have confessed to playing a role in the terror strike at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore during December 25.

During a narco-analysis and brain-mapping test conducted on him at Bowring Hospital in Bangalore, Imran Jalal is said to have revealed that he had accompanied three other terrorists, who had executed the attack on IISc in Bangalore, which claimed the life of one scientist and injured a few others.

Though Imran identified the terrorists to be from Jammu and Kashmir, he did not divulge any other detail of the incident or the people he had accompanied.

According to police sources, Imran had denied any link in the attack on IISc during police investigation. “We suspected his link because the rexin bag that he was carrying when he was arrested here and the one found in his house in Hampi resembles the one police recovered from the site of the IISc attack”, a police official said.

During the narco analysis test, which is conducted after administering chemicals to make the subject chattier, Imran had also confessed that he was acting on the instructions of a person named “Bada Bhai”, whom the police identified as second in command in the Lakshkar E Tayyaba (LeT).

Police suspect that the Bada Bhai, who had masterminded the attack on IISc in Bangalore could be the same person, who had assigned Imran the task of attacking the airport and top IT establishments in Bangalore.

Another significant confession Imran is reported to have made during the narco analysis and brain mapping test is his “friendship” with Tareeq Dar, the main accused in the Sarojini Nagar Market terrorist attack in Delhi during October 2005. Imran revealed that Tareeq Dar was also in touch with “Bada Bhai”.

Imran had admitted to receiving a sum of Rs 300,000 to Rs 400,000 from Tareeq Dar through hawala network, while the arms and ammunition had reached him through a person named Rajesh from Pune.