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IISc. attack accused brought to Bangalore

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Sabahuddin will be subjected to polygraph, narco analysis

U.P. police arrested him for attack on CRPF camp
He has been remanded in police custody for 14 days

Brought to book: Sabahuddin, an accused in the IISc. attack (face covered), being produced in a court in Bangalore on Friday.

BANGALORE: Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Sabahuddin, an accused in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), was brought to Bangalore from Lucknow in the early hours of Friday.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Gopal B. Hosur told The Hindu that Sabahuddin (26) was produced before a local magistrate here who remanded the accused in police custody for 14 days.

In February, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested Sabahuddin on charges of attacking a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Rampur in that State. During interrogation, Sabahuddin revealed about his role in the IISc. shootout on December 28, 2005, the police said.

Sabahuddin, a native of Bihar, had enrolled himself for a BBM course at Presidency College in Kempapura in Hebbal here in 2005. He reportedly surveyed the IISc. campus and passed on necessary information to his handlers abroad for carrying out an attack.

Subsequently, a Pakistani fidayeen codenamed Abu Hamza arrived here and carried out the shootout on the IISc. campus while an international conference was on, the police said quoting what Sabahauddin told them during interrogation.

Later, the Bangalore police named Sabahuddin as an accused in the case registered in Sadashivanagar police station and sought his custody through body warrant from an Uttar Pradesh court. A police team from Bangalore, accompanied by public prosecutors, went to Lucknow and brought Sabahuddin by flight on Friday.

According to the police, Sabahuddin would be taken to different places for investigation and he would be subjected to polygraph, brain mapping and narco analysis tests in the next few days.

Breakthrough

Meanwhile, the arrest of two top SIMI activists, Shibly Peedical Abdul and Adnan, in Indore has come as a major breakthrough for the Karnataka police investigating a terror network spread across the State.

Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh told The Hindu that the two were key persons in the terror network busted by the Karnataka police in January last.

Indeed, the ground work done by the Karnataka police, who had camped in Madhya Pradesh for 10 days and exchanged information with their Indore counterparts, culminated in the arrest of the SIMI leaders, Mr. Singh said.

A team from the CoD would go to Indore to interrogate the accused. Subsequently, the Karnataka police would seek their custody and bring them to Bangalore for investigation, he said.

According to sources in the CoD, Adnan is an accused in a case registered in Vidyanagar police station in Hubli in January this year. Adnan, along with nearly 25 other SIMI activists from across the country, had held three meetings in and around Hubli and discussed plans to carry out bombings in Karnataka and Goa, sources said.

Adnan, an engineering graduate hailing from Bijapur, had escaped soon after two terror suspects, Riyazuddin Nasir and Asadullah Abubaker, were arrested by the Davangere police in January. He is said to have taken with him a huge consignment of arms and ammunition that had reportedly reached Karnataka through Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh.

The sources said that for the last 18 months, the Bangalore police were on the lookout for Abdul, a computer engineer from Kerala who had worked in a multinational IT company here. Abdul’s name first surfaced while the police were investigating the IISc. attack case.

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