After nearly 18 days of probe, ATS says it knows why the arrested terror suspects had bombs, guns and ammunition stacked up at their premises. Officers said the five had set off two bombs — at Belgaum's Prakash theatre on January 26 and Kalyan's Bhanu Sagar theatre on January 28 — to protest the screening of Padmaavat. They were also allegedly involved in planning a conspiracy to hurl bombs at Sunburn Festival in Pune in December 2016.

Special public prosecutor Sunil Gonsalves said the group had decided to target a western music festival, saying it was against Hindu culture.