Five months after the February 13, 2010 bomb blast at Pune, Indian Mujahideen (IM) had planned to carry out a terror strike at German Bakery in the Capital on August 1 but the plan was aborted as one of the executors sustained bullet injuries due to accidental firing.
In its chargesheet filed in a city court against IM’s Indian chief Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar in connection with the September 19, 2010 Jama Masjid terror attack case in a city, the Special Cell of Delhi Police said Yasin had planned to carry out the strike at German Bakery in Paharganj on August 1, 2010 and co-accused Qateel Siddiqui, who died under mysterious circumstances in Pune’s Yerawada Jail in 2012, and Mohd Adil were assigned the work to open fire at the foreign tourists.
On February 13, 2010, a powerful bomb blast had ripped the Pune’s German Bakery killing 17 people, including foreigners, and injuring around 60 others. The Special Cell, in its chargesheet, also said while Qateel and Adil were on their way to carry out the attack, the carbine which was in possession of Adil went off accidentally and Qateel sustained injury in his hips.
“On August 1, 2010, Adil was supposed to carry out the attack at about 9 pm but the carbine then being carried out by him went off accidentally and Qateel received bullet injury in his hip while they were on their way to carry out the attack,” the police said.
They said that in July 2010, Yasin and Qateel had conducted a reconnaissance of the places where foreigners made frequent visits in Delhi and Yasin decided to carry out the strike at German Bakery in Paharganj.
The Delhi Police also said that after the “failed attempt”, Yasin decided Jama Masjid was the area where attack would be carried out and Asadullah Akhtar and Pakistani national Zia-ur-Rahman, alias Waqas, who was recently arrested, would execute the strike. “However, Adil and Qateel insisted that they be given one more chance to execute the strike. This was conveyed to Riyaz (Bhatkal) who consented to this but directed that Asadullah and Waqas should give cover to Qateel and Adil this time,” it said.
It claimed that in pursuance to the conspiracy, the strike was carried out at Gate no. 3 of Jama Masjid on September 19, 2010 where Qateel and Adil “fired indiscriminately” on foreign tourists getting down from a bus and sped away.