ISI link found in B'lore blasts, bus burning case

The National Investigating Team has begun interrogation of three people in Bengaluru with suspected links to the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence. A team of the NIA, which visited the city, sought the permission of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate to interrogate T Nasir, Abdul Jabbar and Sarfaraz Nawaz.

The interesting turn of events with this interrogation is that the NIA finds that the Bangalore serial blasts and the horrific Kalamaserry bus burning case of 2005 are interlinked. In fact, it is the same faction that has been held responsible for both the incidents and the investigating team has found a direct ISI link to both the incidents.

Both T Nasir and Nawaz were picked up in connection with the Bangalore serial blasts case. Their leaders and their factions are directly under the control of the ISI, investigators say.

The bus burning incident took place in 2005 in protest of the arrest of People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasar Madani, prime accused in the Bengaluru bomb blasts case. It has been found that Nasir was part of that incident and organised forces to carry out that incident.

Madani, who has been incarcerated in a Bengaluru jail, has been accused of meeting Nasir during the planning stages of the blasts. Sources pointed out that investigations into this aspect would take a while and meanwhile, would interrogate Madani's wife, Sufiya, in this regard since she had been made one of the accused in the 2005 bus burning incident.