BANGALORE: The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had planned to eliminate the former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and the former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani. This was apart from its plans to set off explosions in some buildings in Bangalore, according to information gathered during narco-analysis of suspected militants.

The tests were conducted on the alleged militants earlier this year after the attack on the Indian Institute of Science. According to documents made available to The Hindu , those who underwent narco-analysis were Mohammed Irfan of Kolar; Afsar Pasha, who was in charge of the LeT module in South Karnataka; and Abdul Rehman, commander of LeT operations in South India. The three were arrested in connection with the IISc. attack in Bangalore on December 29, 2005.

During the narco-analysis, Irfan said he was a moulvi and was staying at Chintamani in Kolar district. He and Pasha had conducted several meetings for planning attacks. Rehman had visited his place and separately met Pasha in Bangalore. Irfan met Pasha on December 11 and 12, 2005 at Cubbon Park and discussed plans to plant bombs in the Hewlett Packard building and the Vidhana Soudha.

Pasha, during narco-analysis, said he met Rehman in Saudi Arabia and attended a training programme in Bangladesh with the Jamat-e-Mujahidin. Rehman had advanced some money for carrying out the plans. Pasha brought explosives from New Delhi and stored it in Chintamani. He had taken Rehman to conduct LeT meetings in Chintamani. It was in these meetings that Rehman set the task of planting bombs in government buildings and eliminating Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Advani, Pasha said.

Rehman told investigators that he was in charge of terrorist activities in South India. He had sent Pasha to Bangladesh for training. He had financed Pasha and his associates for planting bombs in buildings, Rehman revealed.

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