Bengaluru: Three suspected members of banned outfit Indian Mujahideen were yesterday arrested for their involvement in the December 28 blast in the city in which a woman was killed, a top police official said.
The three accused — Syed Ismail Afaq, 34, Saddam Hussein, 35, and Abdus Subur, 24 — were arrested in Bhatkal in the coastal district of Uttara Kannada and brought to the city for interrogation,” Commissioner of Police MN Reddi told reporters here.
A police team raided the homes of the accused in Bhatkal, 480 km from here, and found substantial quantities of explosives (ammonium nitrate), detonators, electronic timer devices, digital circuits, circuit-making material, gas-based explosive material and fuel oil.
“During raids at a rented house of the accused in the city’s northwest suburb, our probe team found several incriminating material including communication equipment, laptops and other equipment, which were seized,” Reddi said. IANS
