A “shocked” country’s intelligence establishment is about to undertake a review of hitherto Pakistan-centric framework for unraveling the spread of terrorist tentacles in Bangalore and rest of Southern India in the wake of the suspected Bangalore link with the failed terror attack in the UK.
With whatever little information the British investigators have shared with India in the last four days about the suspected involvement of three Bangaloreans in the terror plot, Indian intelligence agencies are inclined to assume that there might be a much larger “global” connection to the rise of terror network in Southern India, in particular in Bangalore over the last three years, said sources.
Until Thursday, UK investigators have not really shared much information about their interrogation and investigations into the failed terror attacks or the Glasgow attack, said sources, while indicating that they had nevertheless shared such information as was necessary to get further details about them from the Indian intelligence agencies.
Failed terror plot
An official British anti-terror team was incidentally here earlier this week for regular consultations with their Indian counterparts when the incidents happened in the UK. Apparently, the consultations ended up focusing on the failed terror plot’s Indian links.
Upon queries from their British counterparts, police and intelligence officials had knocked at the doors of Dr Maqbool Ahmed and Dr Zakia, the parents of Kafeel Ahmed and Dr Sabeel Ahmed, both suspected to be involved in the terror plot. Kafeel allegedly drove the burning car that rammed into Glasgow airport and presently undergoing treatment with 90 per cent burns.
The elderly parents were not only quizzed about their sons but also about their own past as they had travelled to many countries before settling down in Bangalore, said the sources.
Their relative, Dr Mohammed Haneef, presently detained in Melbourne for questioning, is suspected to be involved with banned SIMI and this is being currently investigated by intelligence agencies, according to the sources.
Intelligence agencies suggest the association of Kafeel and Shabeel with the Tablighi Jammat, an organisation that was set up in Delhi in 1926 which has in recent decades spread its reach all over the world.