Top level sources in government have told Deccan Chronicle that the strategy adopted by the new terror modules that were busted by Karnataka police last month had shifted from mass terror to high value targets. “This was a bid to set off panic in India’s rock-solid middle-class and the business community,” the high level source said, as the mass terror model adopted against India by Pakistan sponsored terrorists had failed to have the desired effect — damage India’s economic rise and frighten off investors, NIA and IB investigators talking to the suspects had learnt.
The source said NIA-IB involvement ensured there was no room for error, squashing speculation Karnataka police had implicated ‘innocents’ in the terror case. “The CCB had not committed any blunders in identifying the ‘targets’,” the source said, adding that many people had raised questions saying that the LeT and Huji's target nearly always was a mass gathering rather than an individual journalist or a politician.
“Mass terror or individual hits, their goals are the same — bring down the morale of India’s thriving business community and cripple the economy,” the source said. As for suspects being framed on false charges, the source said that it was Andhra Pradesh police and IB sleuths who had alerted the state police four months ago with specific names. “Officers sitting in Delhi and Hyderabad cannot send specific names. What would they achieve by doing so?” the sources asked.