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Bangalore: Karnataka
Police have arrested one more person with alleged links to
Pakistan-based terror outfits LeT and HuJI, taking the number of
people detained in the state in the last five days to 13, a police
officer said Sunday.
Mohammed Akram, 22, was arrested late Saturday in Bangalore city
centre when he was trying to leave the state, Bangalore Police
Commissioner B. G. Jyothiprakash Mirji told reporters here.
A foreign-made 7.65 mm pistol and 16 cartridges were seized from
Akram who hails from Nanded in Maharashtra, Mirji said.
He said Akram along with 12 others, who were arrested Wednesday
and Friday, were hatching a conspiracy to kill their targets, said
to be leading politicians, some journalists and Hindu organisation
leaders, in Bangalore and elsewhere.
He said following the arrest of the 12, six from Bangalore, five
from northern town of Hubli and one from Hyderabad, Akram was
attempting to escape from the city when the crime branch team
apprehended him.
The six held in Bangalore include a journalist, a junior research
fellow in Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and
a doctor.
The 12th man, Obedullah-ur-Rehman, 21, was arrested in Hyderabad
Friday.
Mirji said Saturday that a special team has been set up to
investigate the terror links of the arrested with the
Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Harkat-ul-Jaihad-al-Islam (Huji) and
unravel their plans to carry out attacks.
The arrested have been charged under the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act and various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)
and the Arms Act.
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