Bengaluru: In what the police claimed to be a major breakthrough in the Bengaluru Church street blast, has come to naught, after the City Police Commissioner M.N. Reddy announced that the three IM suspects arrested have no link with the blast incident.
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The two alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives were arrested on Thursday, following which another person was arrested – as per the reports received, two from a flat in Cox Town area of the city and one from a house in Bhatkal town, Uttara Kannada district.
Sources said the arrest was the result of a simultaneous swoop on multiple locations based on IB inputs. The investigation led to a recovery of a huge cache of explosives and bomb-making material from the house in Bhatkal.
City Police Commissioner M.N. Reddi, announcing the arrests, said the module prima facie had no links to the December 28, 2014, Church Street blast. He said the arrests were made based on specific leads. However, he added that nothing could be ruled out at this stage, and a further probe was on.
The arrested have been identified as Syed Ismail Afaq (34) and Saddam Hussein (35) and Abdus Subur (24), an MBA student from Bhatkal.
Mr. Reddy said police raided a house in Cox Town from where they arrested Syed and Saddam and recovered laptops, mobile phones and incriminating communication equipment. Abdus was arrested from a house, from where the police recovered “substantial quantities of explosives”.
The arrested are suspected to be members of the IM and are also in touch with other splinter terror modules, he concluded.
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