Thursday, December 29 2005 14:54 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore today (Dec 29, 2005) came two days after Delhi Police said Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehad terror outfit was planning to target software parks in Hyderabad and Karnataka capital.

Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh had said on Monday that interrogation of three Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami militants revealed plans to target software parks in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

However, a senior police official said tonight that the IISc was not a 'specific target' of terrorists.

An Emeritus professor of IIT, Delhi, was killed in a firing outside the J N Tata auditorium in the IISc campus.

Singh had said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence had adopted a new modus operandi to train Indian nationals in Baluchistan province by taking them there via Bangladesh.

The three militants interrogated by Special Cell sleuths earlier this month were arrested from Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

One of the three militants, Mohammad Ibrahim, who was arrested from Andhra Pradesh, revealed HuJI has its bases in Dhaka and Rajshahi in western Bangladesh.

"Interrogation revealed that Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI had opened terrorist training camps in Baluchistan and have been ferrying Indians and Bangladeshi nationals to provide weapons training", he said.