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Dharwad electrician held for terror links

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

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