In the process, they recruited several youth to the outfit following which training was imparted to each of them. He said that the idea was to transform SIMI into a militant outfit.
The confession is very much on the lines of the interview given by Nagori prior to the outfit's ban.
In the interview, he said it is not when an individual is harmed, but when an entire community finds itself collectively persecuted that the cry for jihad is given. If nothing works then one is forced to revolt, take to arms.
Nagori said that he was an extremist and not a fundamentalist and his actions were never on the basis of religion.
Image: Investigators collect samples from one of the blast sites after serial blasts rocked Bengaluru on July 25.
Photograph: KPN Photos
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