How I planted bombs at IISc

How I planted bombs at IISc
Chief Minister Kumaraswamy on Friday said security been “beefed up” at all vital installations in the terror threat in the UK and on the eve of Independ Chief Reporter Nirad Mudur shows how easy it was for him to sneak into the Indian Institute of Science in B the target of the terror attack last December.
Vijay TImes

On Friday, I did not just breach the security at the Indian Institute of Science and accomplish my mission successfully, but also got away scot-free. My mission began at 11.45 am.

Armed with a bag containing a liquid explosive, bookshaped-RDX, and wearing a jacket carrying some IEDs in the large pockets, I entered the smaller campus housing the JN Tata Auditorium and the Satish Dhawan Auditorium from the gate next to the Dandina Maramma temple.

This is where a suspected terrorist carried out an attack on Dec 28 after he reportedly jumped in over the wall.

But I had an easy ride without obstructions. Two security guards posted there were busy, probably gossiping.

No one stopped me. I did not have to register my name, address, purpose of visit, or vehicle registration number. No bag checks, metal detectors. But a board stared back: ‘Visitors to report to the security’. Imagine a terrorist obliging.

I was the terrorist today. My target was the main campus.

I reached there using the subway connecting JN Tata Auditorium campus with the main campus from under CV Raman Road. By noon I had planted an IED in the Microbiology and Cell Biology Department.

My pre-mission briefing did not include any information about any epidemiccausing germs stored there, so I decided to use just an IED and save the bigger ones for other locations for maximum effect.

Then I had a free run through Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Research Lab, SERC and the library. I exhausted my book-shaped RDX stock.

Of course, I timed them to explode much after I left the campus.

Having planted bombs at will, I opened my bag and brought out my Uzi attached with a silencer, placed it on the bike’s handle bar, and zoomed towards the gate blazing away at the security guards at the IISc main gate at the junction from where I planned to exit.

Mission accomplished, I decided to follow traffic rules and stopped at the red signal at the gate.

That’s when a security man came up— after I had completed my mission.

At IISc, one is supposed to exit from the gate of entry and not any of the four gates.

After some argument over why I should go back to the same gate to exit, I was asked to meet the security officer— Uzi and all in the bag.

A few polite words, informing him about me being a journalist, and then I was asked to leave—no bag check, no ID card show.

But I did leave my visiting card....and a lot of bombs.

In case, they blow up when this is being written, don’t blame me...my bombs were fake.

But the security lapse at IISc is not.

You could do it too, if the security has not taken note of this by now.