New Delhi: Security agencies have submitted a report to the government that confessions of an alleged accomplice in the Akshardham temple attack and diary of a Pakistani militant had claimed that the entire planning for the attack in which 32 people were killed was done at the native residence of Jammu and Kashmir Minister Abdul Aziz Zargar, who denied his involvement.

The report said Khan had claimed during interrogation that all the planning was done at the residence of Zargar and the two suicide attackers of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) along with him had started their journey for Gujarat from Zargar's residence.

The residence of Zargar, who was elected from Noorabad Assembly seat in Kulgam Tehsil, is located at Manzgam near Shopian in South Kashmir. The minister has denied any knowledge about the planning being done at his native village and has also made it clear that he had left his house long time back.

State police has also denied any link between Zargar and LeT militants but said that militants used to frequent the village of minister for food and shelter.

The report also cites a request from the minister after winning the elections in which he had asked the police to remove the guard at his residence. The request was, however, cancelled after militants gunned down a People's Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Abdul Aziz Mir in Pampore.

The report also quoted notings from a diary of a Pakistani militant Zahoor Manzoor Chowdhury in which specific dates were given when militants were holding meetings at the residence of Zargar.

PTI