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Arrested engineer a top SIMI functionary: police

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Police on the lookout for Yahya’s associates
His name figured during investigations into
IISc. attack

BANGALORE: A Bangalore-based software engineer who has been arrested for his suspected terror links is said to be a top functionary of the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for the last eight years.

Sources in the police told The Hindu on Friday that Mohammed Yahya Kammakutty alias Yahya Khan (32) came in contact with SIMI while he was studying at the Regional Engineering College in Kozhikode, Kerala. After completing his B.E. (Electrical) with distinction, Yahya came to Bangalore in 1996 and joined a software company.

He later quit the company and joined a software major at its facility in Whitefield on the outskirts of Bangalore. The company reportedly dismissed him from service in mid-2007 after he was found downloading data that he was not supposed to, a senior official from the Corps of Detectives (CoD) said.

A CoD team that arrested Yahya from his house in Gurappanapalya on Bannerghatta Road on Thursday took him to Hubli. As he has been arrested in connection with a case registered in Hubli, he would be produced before the jurisdictional court there, the official said. The police are on the lookout for a few other SIMI activists who are said to be his associates.

According to CoD sources, his Yahya was under the surveillance of intelligence agencies His name had also figured during the investigations into the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science in December 2005.

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