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Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Since 2005, 273 people have been killed, including five terrorists and 268 civilians, and many more injured and properties wrecked in such attacks on 10 the Indian metropolises.
The Mumbai Police Commissioner identified the ISI as being the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks with the help of Pakistan-based terrorist outfits LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) associating local SIMI members, especially the 26/11 terrorist take over of Mumbai’s Taj Hotel and other places. The idea of dressing the Pak terrorists in Hindu atire and ‘tikka’ on their foreheads was to enable some Indians to propagate that it was an act of ‘Hindu Terror’. But the chance capture alive of Kasab explode the fake narrative after kasad confessed to being from Pakistan. Nearly 21 people were arrested from different parts of the country within days in connection with the incident. One of them, arrested from J&K on 23 August 2006, during questioning claimed that 17 members of the Pakistan- based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were involved in carrying out the attacks, of which 16 have returned back safely and one went missing. The missing terrorist, Salim, was finally identified among the dead in the train bomb blast at Mahim. The police investiga-tions have also identified the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as being involved with the LeT in executing the attacks. SIMI has a strong network across India and in recent years has become a principal ally of nearly all major Islamist terrorist groups.
Since 1997, Delhi has witnessed 26 major bomb blasts killing in all 92 people and injuring more than 600. Among the incidents, the 10/29 (2005) blasts was the most serious—killing 62 persons and injuring 155. The explosion occurred almost simultaneously at two busy market places in Delhi and one in a Delhi Transport Cooperation bus. The first high-intensity incident was on 13 December 2001, viz. the attack on Parliament in which 11 were killed and 30 injured. Investigators later found the attack was jointly executed by the Pakistan-based LeT and JeM.
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