The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) aided terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had plans to attack the headquarters of Congress and BJP as well as the IIT Delhi soon after the serial blasts in September 2008, police sources said today.
Sources said that the Indian Mujahideen's plans came to light during the interrogation of Shahzad who was arrested while in hiding in UP's Azamgarh.
Delhi Police yesterday claimed that Shahzad was in contact with four members of the terror module over internet after he fled from Batla House here following the encounter.
Investigators also claimed that Shahzad has confessed to firing at late inspector MC Sharma during the encounter at Batla House on September 19, 2008, a week after the Delhi serial blasts which killed 26 people.
According to sources, during interrogation, Shahzad told police that after fleeing from Batla House, he first went to a the Shaheenbagh house of a UP politician believed to be a former MLA. He allegedly took some money from him.
From Shaheenbagh, he and Junaid, another person whom police claimed to have fled from Batla House, went to Aligarh from where they went to Bulandshahr. Sources said Shahzad then allegedly headed towards Lucknow and later went to his village in Azamgarh from where he went to Jaipur.
"From Jaipur, he went to Mumbai and later returned to his village where he was hiding," the official said.
Sources said Shahzad allegedly opened fire at Sharma using a .32 revolver which he later threw away in a canal. Police could not recover the revolver despite taking him to the spot.
Police also conducted raids at several places mentioned by Shahzad to piece together "the riddle", sources said.
Shahzad, who was arrested by UP's Anti-Terror Squad, took the names of the former MLA, a local leader believed to be a councillor and another leader whose help he took to flee from the national capital, sources said.
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