NEW DELHI: New evidence has emerged that the December 28, 2005 terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore might have been executed by a Dhaka-based cell .

Research and Analysis Wing communications intelligence personnel, intercepted a conversation between the Dhaka-based Naved Gul, a suspect wanted since 2003 for his alleged role in an operation to execute terror strikes in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad, and his handlers in Pakistan, sources told The Hindu .

In the conversation, the handlers demanded to know what Gul had done with the funds despatched from West Asia for a series of terror strikes in major Indian cities. Gul drew their attention to the strike on the IISc as evidence that the resources were being put to good use.

The sources said the conversation was one of dozens in which terrorist operatives based in Dhaka discussed possible terror strikes in southern India in the weeks before the January summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Islamabad.

In many of the conversations, terror cell organisers referred to southern India by the code-word neechey, Hindi for "below" or "lower."

Analysts in RAW's super-secret communications intelligence group, the National Technical Reconnaissance Organisation, succeeded in breaking the codes used in these conversations.

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