BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh on Sunday said the 2005 terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was masterminded and executed by Abu Hamza, a Pakistan national.Mohammed Sabahuddin, one of the six arrested assisted Hamza in the attack. “It was Hamza who pulled the trigger,” Dr. Singh said at a media conference. To investigate the case thoroughly, the Karnataka police would take Sabahuddin into their custody through body warrant.
A police team from the State has gone to Uttar Pradesh and a team from there would come to Bangalore.
Dr. Singh, who was the Police Commissioner when the attack took place, said they were yet to ascertain reports that Sabahuddin studied in a college here. Dr. Singh said they were in touch with their Uttar Pradesh counterparts following claims by Riyazuddin Nasir, an alleged Laskar operative, that he met Hamza while he was undergoing arms training in Pakistan. Nasir, arrested by the Karnataka police on January 11, reportedly gave a graphic description of the attack on the basis of what Hamza told him.
Director-General of Police K.R. Sreenivasan said they have to corroborate the information given by Sabahuddin to his interrogators in Lucknow.