Bangalore:
Ruling out exchange of fire near an ISRO facility on the city outskirts on Tuesday, the Karnataka government on Wednesday rejected a CISF guard's claim that two unidentified men shot at the centre.
Making a statement in the legislative council, home minister V S Acharya said "There are no traces of gun shots outside the building (ISRO's Indian Deep Space Network centre). Preliminary investigation suggested that there were no traces of gun shots from any intruder."
He said CISF personnel Jadhav who was on duty claimed he noticed movement of two persons at about 3.30 am yesterday and he fired eight bullets to retaliate firing by intruders.
"While six empty cartridges out of the eight rounds fired have been recovered from the spot, no trace of gunfire outside the ISDN complex was found. This is what the situation is," Acharya said, responding to the issue raised by leader of opposition Motamma of Congress during zero hour.
The police and CISF have launched a joint probe into the issue and the government would initiate action on receipt of an inquiry report, he said, adding there was no need for panic and all precautionary measures were taken.
M C Nanaiah of JDS pointed out to the contradictory statements that have surfaced over the incident involving the ISRO facility at Byalalu and wanted to know whether the state has sent a report to the Centre to which, Acharya responded positively.
Home minister P Chidambaram and Karnataka police had yesterday ruled out any terror angle to the incident that initially raised security fears in the city which is on the terror radar.
"There are no signs of any firing from outside; certainly there was no evidence of firing on the outside walls of the ISRO facility. On the face of it does not appear to be a terror attack," ADGP (Law and Order) A R Infant had said.