BANGALORE: The police have foiled Lashkar-e-Taiba's plan to carry out blasts in some of the software firms here.

The police have also seized a cache of explosives comprising 17 electronic detonators, 20 gelatin sticks, 120 gel sticks, three hand grenades and packets of iron pellets. Books on jehad were also found.

The seizure was made following a detailed interrogation of two suspected LeT terrorists, Afsar Pasha and Irfan. Both the men were arrested on Friday night in connection with the December 28 attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here, which claimed the life of a retired professor.

The police found the buried explosives at Chintamani in Kolar district. Pasha and Irfan were reported to be associates of Abdul Rehman, who was earlier nabbed in the IISc case.

Police sources said Pasha was working as a mechanic in Chintamani. Irfan was a moulavi from Uttar Pradesh. Pasha was involved in a 2003 Dhaka bomb blast and was targeting some of the software companies in Bangalore, the police interrogation revealed

The police were in the look out for a few more terrorists and have the names of three extremists, Bangalore police commissioner, Ajai Kumar Singh said.

The identity of software companies, which the terrorist outfit was targeting, was not immediately known.