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Electrician picked up in Dharwad

BANGALORE: The Corps of Detectives (CoD), which is investigating a terror module unearthed by the Davangere police, on Tuesday arrested an electrician from Dharwad for his alleged links with terror network.

Highly placed sources in the CoD told The Hindu here on Wednesday that Shakeel (29), a resident of Koppadakeri in Dharwad, had helped the activists of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) hold two meetings, one near the Mastansab Darga on Saudatti Road and the other at the Halligere forests on Haliyal Road in Hubli.

Shakeel also participated in the two meetings, held last November, where some 25 SIMI activists from Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala allegedly discussed plans to carry out acts of sabotage. These activists held another meeting near Dandeli in May last, but Shakeel had not participated in it, the sources said.

According to them, Shakeel was motivated and inducted into the terror network by the two arrested terror suspects: Asadullah Abubaker, an Ayurveda student of Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya in Hubli and Mohammed Asif, a final year MBBS student of the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences in Hubli.

The police searched Shakeel’s house in Dharwad and nothing incriminating was found.

He was a recent recruit to the terror network, the sources said.

Meanwhile, Riyazuddin Nasir of Hyderabad, who was arrested along with Abubaker by the Davangere police on January 11, was subjected to another round of narco analysis here on Wednesday. Experts from State Forensic Science Laboratory conducted the test at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital.

Hubli Staff Correspondent reports:

The CoD produced him before the Judicial Magistrate First Class (First Court) on Wednesday and he was remanded in judicial custody, the sources said.

Shakeel is the son of a former employee of Karnatak University, the sources said.

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