BANGALORE: The information revealed by the suspects in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) attack case during the narco analysis has not helped the city police much.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Gopal B. Hosur said the information given by the suspects related to their role as members of Lashkar-e-Taiba and it did not help the police in establishing links with the IISc. attack. "Most of the information that was revealed was known to us," he said.

M.C. Puri, a Delhi-based professor, was killed in the attack on December 28 last year. The city police booked cases against eight persons and charged them with conspiracy and waging war against the nation. The police subjected nine persons, including five who were brought from Mumbai, to the narco analysis test.

Among those who were subjected to the test included Afsar Pasha, said to be in charge of the LeT module in south Karnataka, Abdul Rehman, allegedly the chief of LeT operations in South India and Mohammed Rezur Rehman, a suspected LeT operative.

During the narco analysis test conducted here in January, Afsar Pasha named Shameem, Shabbir, Sajid and Sharif Bhai as the persons responsible for the attack. The city police brought these four persons from Mumbai, but found that they had no knowledge of the attack on the IISc.

"They did not disclose anything about the attack," Mr. Hosur said. The city police found Pasha referring Shameem and Shabir as members of Bangalore Tanzeem to be vague as `Tanzeem' in Urdu means a group of youngsters. The police also did not find any link between the IISc. attack and the Tamil Sangham. Pasha had said during the test that Shameem and Shabir had met at the Tamil Sangham.

Similar was the result of the interrogation of Jameel, Parvez Mushraf and Ishak, residents of Ganga Nagar locality in Bangalore, whom Pasha had named as key members of LeT. These three persons were found to be members of `Ahl-e-Hadeeth,' a conservative Islamic sect.

The city police are yet to arrest Aslam and Salim mentioned by Abdul Rehman. Rehman had revealed in the narco analysis that his friend Aslam and Salim of Uttar Pradesh were involved in the attack. Salim has also been referred as the person to whom the task of shooting had been assigned. Though the police went to Uttar Pradesh and other areas they are yet to trace the persons involved in the IISc. attack.

The route through which the weapon reached the assailant involved in the attack is yet to be established.

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