While opposing the bail of arrested computer engineer Anis Ansari, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad have submitted before court transcripts of an online chat allegedly between Ansari and a certain Omar Elhaji, which draws a scary scenario very close to the Peshawar school attack that left 145 people dead.

Ansari, 22, was arrested in October last year for hatching a plan to attack the American International School in Bandra Kurla Complex. He was tracked online for months by the Maharashtra ATS's social lab and was arrested when he applied for a passport while planning to join terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.In the transcripts of his Facebook chats with Elhaji, Ansari says that an attack on the school will teach America and its allies a fitting lesson and that the children do not deserve any mercy.Rejecting the bail application, sessions court judge K R Deosarkar said it is clear that Ansari, an associate geographic technician with Here Solutions Private Limited in Seepz, posed a danger to the safety and security of the country and its people.Ansari, who adopted the alias Usayrim Logan in these chats, in one conversation with Elhaji disregards his request to rethink his plan to attack the school because it would involve killing “innocent children“. Ansari says that none of the children in the school could be described as “innocent“, and adds that in Shariah only those under 13 years are considered children.Over 140 people, including at least 130 students aged between eight and 18, were killed when nine heavily armed members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan entered an army public school on December 16 and opened indiscriminate fire.To prove Usayrim Logan was Ansari's adopted identity, the ATS told the court that the computer engineer used his office computer for these chats and that the machine was password protected. The ATS also said that they have come across references to these chats and some emails Ansari sent under Usayrim Logan's identity in the statements of several witnesses, including an of fice colleague of Ansari.The chats also throw light on the extent to which Ansari, a resident of Kurla Pipe Road's Kadir building, the same place where Indian Mujhaheedin founder members Riyaz Bhatkal and his brother Iqbal Bhatkal once resided, was radicalised and believed in the jihadi agenda. In the same chat with Elhaji, Ansari says that the fight against Americans goes back 70 years and that the jihadis have a debt of over 1 million (people) to settle “right from 1920 to today.“While the argument of defence lawyers Sharif Sheikh, Chirag Shah and Abhishek Pandey right from the beginning has been that Ansari is mentally ill, the ATS argued that since the accused had taken up a job six months before his arrest and had undergone a health check-up at that time it is sufficient proof that he is of sound mind.ATS Chief Himanshu Roy, while speaking to Mumbai Mirror, on Wednesday said: “Since he had exclusive access to the password-protected computer, from which the operation of the Facebook account was traced, we believe he was the one who had sent those chats.“The ATS arrested Ansari on October 20 after its cyber team flagged his social media chat messages, allegedly exchanged with two people in the UK and Australia, with whom he discussed his plan to target the American school.The ATS seized his computers, mobile and also obtained a `mirror' of his mailbox, from which it extracted other messages where he expressed sympathy for the ISIS fighters and described Americans as tormentors. It booked him under Section 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) read with 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code, and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.ATS sources said he also shared a lot of Jihadi videos and literature related to ISIS and its leaders with the two people over nearly two years. The ATS had claimed he had even prepared himself to execute the attacks.: “Jazak Allah Khayran Akhi. But I must ask you to consider or reconsider one thing about your plans that are coming up. Please, please, please be careful...and why would you target a school. There are innocent young children there. It is not their fault. Please reconsider and rethink the school (plan).“: “The American school has children from about 10 different allies of America, including France and Italy. Nothing hurts d enemy...nothing hurts d enemy more than this.As for d innocent children, as u wud like to call them... nah... not one of them is innocent. Besides, children under Islamic sharia are those below 13....“: “We r d ameer (leaders) here of r own selves. There ain't any jihad organization here, apart from Kashmir, that is operating openly or even secretly on d field. None.Not even one...d kuffat here have a history of slaughterin r women and children for d past 70 years. Besides, when it comes America and Europe, we have a debt of over 1 million [people] to settle -right from 1920 till today.“