Bengaluru, Jan 30: The National Investigation Agency’s shocking revelation that terrorists had tried to target an Israeli delegation by planting bomb on Church Street in Bengaluru, has left behind some loopholes in the case raising questions over the credibility of its claim.
“He had carried out the instructions of his handler who had informed him about the probable visit of an Israeli delegation to the said café (Coconut Grove) for dinner that night,” the communiqué stated.
However, local police as well as the Israeli consulate claimed that they had no knowledge of such a delegation or a visit to Coconut Grove on December 28, 2014. What has them ‘worried’ is the revelation that it could have been a planned attack targeting the Israeli establishment in the city, said a senior police officer who probed the case.
According to the NIA, Alam Jeb Afridi alias Rafeeq, has also confessed to the arson attack on the Israeli visa centre in Mittal Towers on M.G. Road on the intervening night of 29th and 30th November, 2015. A lot of ‘anti-Semitic hate literature’ was recovered from Afridi’s residence, the statement said.
In the said incident, someone had hurled a kerosene bomb, setting off a fire and also dropped a note written in Arabic. The city police had dismissed it as the result of a ‘civil dispute’ in the building. Several city police officers said that this is the first time they heard of an Israeli delegation planning to visit the restaurant or that the blast was part of a planned attack on the delegation. They added that it is surprising that they were not aware of any such delegation. “We had been co-ordinating with all the central intelligence agencies on the probe and nowhere did we come across this information,” a senior police officer, now posted out of the city said.
Ziv Shalvi, Deputy Chief of Mission and Spokesman, Consulate General of Israel, Bengaluru also denied knowledge of any such delegation. “There was no official delegation or any official from the consulate that I know of visiting Coconut Grove on the day of the bombing,” he said adding that the consulate did not believe that there were any specific anti-Semitic sentiments in the city. “We are constantly co-ordinating with the city police, confident of their protection and work.”
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Truth will reveal after 10/15 years!! that s what happening now in our
country when ever some tragedy happen and some people arrested in this regards!!
Many twists with lies & deceptions are done to justify cases on the innocents. Any way The one who gave us soul will not live these deceivers, He will live some troubles on their own stupidity so that the smart & intelligent people to recognize the reality of their deception.
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