Karnataka (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2006

Karnataka Police has confirmed that Mohammad Raji-Ur Rehman alias Abdul Rehman did not carry out the attack at the IISc. However, Rehman has reportedly told police that he, along with some likeminded people, launched a trust in Chennai to "spread religious ideology". According to sources, they named it Al-Fatah and he has been sending Islamic literature to the persons responsible in Chennai from Saudi Arabia on a regular basis. Read less...

On January 5, a special police team from Bangalore (capital city of Karnataka) along with the Tamil Nadu Police detained a Mangalore-based suspect, Alim Basheer Mysori, in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu, in connection with the December 28-terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. The Police also arrested two other suspects from Mulbagal and Chintamani in the Kolar district of Karnataka on the same day. Read less...

On January 15, a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) conspiracy to blast reservoirs and power installations in Karnataka was unearthed when the police arrested a terrorist, Habeeb, from Almatti in the Bagalkot district, according to Hindu. Police recovered explosive materials such as gelatin sticks from the premises where Habeeb was arrested. A diary, a passport and some incriminating materials were also seized. Bangalore city Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh said Habeeb alias Mehboob Ibrahim alias Chopdar was a key LeT operative in Karnataka. He had been directed by Abdul Rehman, alleged LeT ‘commander’, to plan explosions at the Kaiga Nuclear Plant in Karwar district, Almatti dam in Bagalkot and the Sharavathy transmission lines from Sharavathy Hydel station in the Shimoga district. Habeeb, a fabrication mechanic from Guledagudda in Bagalkot district, was in Saudi Arabia from 1993 to 2001, where he reportedly came in contact with Rehman and other Lashkar leaders. Read less...

According to Hindu, the Bangalore police, who are investigating the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have arrested two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives on January 20. The arrested were identified as Irfan, an Islamic preacher from Uttar Pradesh, and Afsar Pasha, a native of Chintamani in Kolar district. Read less...

According to Press Trust of India, the Bangalore police have arrested two persons in connection with the December 28, 2005-terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in the city. Police said Nizamuddin alias Munna and M. Noorulla Khan, both residents of Chintamani in the Kolar district of Karnataka, were arrested near Hesaraghatta on the outskirts of capital Bangalore on January 22. Police recovered two ‘tin bombs’, one ‘tiffin-carrier bomb’, a country-made revolver with three rounds, three electrical detonators and a telephone book from their possession. The six persons arrested so far in connection with the incident were in constant touch with each other and had also participated in the meetings in Bangalore and were preparing to carry out "violent militant activities" in and around the city, said police sources. Read less...

According to Pioneer, police arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) activist in connection with the December 28-terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus in Bangalore. Chand Pasha reportedly acted as a conduit in disbursing funds for LeT's "subversive activities" in Karnataka and was used by another accused Abdul Rehman in routing money to members of the outfit. Pasha, a businessman from Bangalore, had met prime accused Abdul Rehman in Saudi Arabia. Police said that Pasha had made payments to two of the other accused, Afsar Pasha and Ibrahim on the directions of his brother in Saudi Arabia. Read less...