FRIGHTENING : Two top boarding schools were also targets
NEW DELHI : The National Defence College ( NDC ) in the capital and two leading boarding schools in a north Indian state are on the hit list of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lakshar-e-Tayyeba, a senior home ministry official said on wednesday.
The United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) learnt of the Lakshar's attack plans during the interrogation of Lakshar operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
The FBI had recently arrested Chicago-based Headley and Rana for plotting terror attacks against a Danish newspaper.
On Tuesday, prosecutors revealed documents that accused the two of discussing the attack on the NDC.
The papers were unsealed before a Chicago court hearing Rana's bail plea. Rana, a Canadian national, was born in Pakistan.
The NDC trains military and civilian officersfrom India and abroad about strategic aspects of national defence.
Indian security officials, who had similarly colleceted intelligence about other installations on the Lakshar's hit list, said the FBI had shared the information "quite some time back".
"The state governments concerned had been sensitised to the threats," said an intelligence officer. " Surveillance and security levels have been raised accordingly."
"I think there is a constant review of threat perceptions and targets... and we work on the safeguards adequately," said minister of state for defence M.M. Pallam Raju.
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