Thursday, July 7 2005 16:11 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Still groping in the dark over the identity of militants who carried out a suicide attack in Ayodhya on Tuesday (July 5, 2005), Uttar Pradesh police has sought the help of Jammu and Kashmir police in establishing the background of the terrorists even as raids continued in various parts of the State to unravel the conspiracy.

Informed sources said an official of Jammu and Kashmir police had reached Faizabad to help the State authorities in establishing the identity of five militants.

The sources said Central intelligence agencies were trying to connect the missing links in the sequence of events leading to the suicide attack on July 5.

So far, the sources claimed that one thing had been established that the militants had carried out a recce exercise of the religious place they struck.

Two arrested drivers -- Rehan and Raj Kumar -- who were commandeered by the militants from Akbarpur in Uttar Pradesh to Faizabad, near Ayodhya, told the interrogators that the militants spoke little and in sign language about the route to the makeshift complex, indicating that they knew the route to their destination.

Militants who carried out the December 13 audacious attack on Parliament had also conducted a recce before striking.

The two drivers in their separate interrogation said the militants mainly spoke in some language, which they could not comprehend.

Meanwhile, searches were being conducted in various parts of the State on the possible hideouts that could have been used by the militants.