Indian Mujahideen had plans to attack IIT, BJP, Cong HQs

NEW DELHI: The Lashkar-e-Taiba aided terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had plans to attack the headquarters of Congress and BJP as well as the IIT Delhi soon after the serial blasts in September 2008, police sources said today.

Sources said that the Indian Mujahideen's plans came to light during the interrogation of Shahzad who was arrested while in hiding in UP's Azamgarh.

The Indian Mujahideen had plans to target prominent buildings like the headquarters of parties like Congress and BJP and the IIT campus in the capital, the sources said.

Delhi Police yesterday claimed that Shahzad was in contact with four members of the terror module over internet after he fled from Batla House here following the encounter.

Investigators also claimed that Shahzad has confessed to firing at late Inspector M C Sharma during the encounter at Batla House on September 19, 2008, a week after the Delhi serial blasts which killed 26 people.

According to sources, during interrogation, Shahzad told police that after fleeing from Batla House, he first went to a the Shaheenbagh house of a UP politician believed to be a former MLA. He allegedly took some money from him.

From Shaheenbagh, he and Junaid, another person whom police claimed to have fled from Batla House, went to Aligarh from where they went to Bulandshahr.