Kozhikode: Mohammed Fahad, one of the suspected Al-Badr activists arrested by the Karnataka police from Mysore on Friday for planning to attack the Vikasa Soudha in Bangalore and the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, is reported to have maintained close links with his father's relatives based in Kozhikode. This was revealed during massive search operations carried out by the police in various parts of Kozhikode district on Saturday. Searches were conducted in the house of his stepmother at Kappad, his father Abdulla Koya's sisters' residences at Palazhi and Iringalloor, at an industrial unit at Kuttikattoor, the houses of its owner and one of its directors. Letters, diaries and compact discs were seized during the raids. Some of the letters in Urdu were letters received by his stepbrother and stepsister from Fahad's sister in Karachi.

Fahad, the seventh son of Abdulla Koya who migrated to Karachi in Pakistan in the early 70s, had been in Kozhikode during February and March this year. His father had accompanied him to Kozhikode. The raids were carried out under the supervision of City Police Commissioner Balram Kumar Upadhyay and Kozhikode Rural Superintendent of Police T.M. Abubaker.

A team of police officers from Karnataka is camping in the city. So far no arrest has been recorded though several people have been interrogated.

Considering the issue's seriousness, the top brass is tight-lipped about the probe.

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