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Four terror suspects arrested in Ullal

Karnataka Bureau

‘Three HAL employees being questioned in Bangalore’

It was a joint effort by Mumbai Police and State ANF
It is in connection with nationwide terror attacks

Photo: R. Eswarraj

Anxious: People standing outside a house in Subashnagar in Mangalore on Friday where a terrorist was suspected to have been hiding. —

BANGALORE/MANGALORE: Four persons suspected of having links with the terrorist outfit, Indian Mujahideen, were arrested from houses in and around Mangalore during a joint operation conducted in the early hours of Friday by the Mumbai Police with help from the Karnataka Anti-Naxal Force and the Dakshina Kannada police.

The arrest of the suspects is said to be in connection with the recent blasts across the country. Inspector-General of Police (Western Range) A.M. Prasad claimed that all the four are local people and dispelled rumours that the suspected terrorists were from Gujarat and Maharashtra.

“We believe we have broken into a key local unit of the Indian Mujahideen,” he said.

In another development in Bangalore, senior officials of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Friday confirmed to The Hindu that three of its employees were being questioned by Central agencies over their links with the functionaries of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.

Director-General and Inspector-General of Police R. Sri Kumar, who has been closely monitoring the developments and is coordinating with the Union Home Ministry, said, “We are in close touch with the police of other States. We are following up on all possible leads in the shortest possible time.”

The suspects arrested at Ullal have been identified as Mohammed Ali (56), a real estate agent from Mukkachari in Ullal, and his son Jawed Ali (20), a student of Quranic Studies; Naushad (25) of Subhashnagar who is engaged in construction work, and Ahmed Bawa (33), a petty businessman from Haleyangadi village near Mulki.

As evidence, the police displayed what they claimed to be five “live bombs”, several mobile phone SIM cards from Maharashtra and Gujarat (used and unused), alleged Jihadi literature and compact discs, passports, mobile phones, a laptop, two computer hard drives and Rs. 11.39 lakh in cash.

The police said all the details of the case and the incriminating evidence could not be shared as it might affect the investigation.

The police claim that all the four suspects knew one another and were in constant touch.

They also claimed that the father and son team of Mohammed Ali and Jawed Ali was the first to be picked up. Jawed is said to have led the police to Naushad, who, in turn, led them to the house of Ahmed Bawa.

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