Naved confesses carrying out 7/11 blasts on television

New Delhi, July 10 (UNI) A convent educated Mumbai youth and a former call centre employee has confessed on camera his involvement in the 7/11 serial train blasts which rocked the country's commercial capital.

Aired on a TV channel, the confessions of Naved Hussain Khan threw light on the modus operandi of the bombers and exposed the influence of SIMI members and Pakistani agents on the suspect.

''I planned the bomb package in the Virar fast local's train first compartment, since it was easier to get off at Borivali in a Virar fast local, as compared to getting off at Bandra during peak hour train travel in Mumbai,'' he confessed in his 35-minute confession given to the television channel, according to a release.

He also told the channel that he went underground for three days after the blast which made other planters think that he had died during the incident.

Naved, who spent his childhood in Kuwait and studied in a convent school in Mira road, admitted faking certificates to get a job at HSBC call centre in Hyderabad.

He was introduced to SIMI activists during a visit to a dance bar in Mumbai. ''These people started inspiring me with messages of Jehad and introduced me to three Pakistani nationals,'' he said in his statement. He also disclosed that he had stayed in the Mohammad Ali Road area for sometime where he met the others involved in the blast.

On July eleven last year, a series of seven bomb blasts were triggered in a span of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. The blasts claimed 180 lives and injured about 900 people.

UNI