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A Hyderabad-link to the arrest of 11 terror suspects in Karnataka emerged on Friday with a special team from the neighbouring state picking up another suspect from the city.
The suspect was identified as 26-year-old Obaid Ur Rehman, a degree student residing at Gulshan Iqbal Colony in Chandrayangutta area of Old City.
Besides Obaid, the visiting team is also reported to have taken along at least four more youngsters even as the Hyderabad police remained tight-lipped over the swift operation by the Bangalore police.
Two of them have been identified as Mohammed Akram, a resident of Hussain Nagar and Khairullah of Teegalkunta.
According to sources, Obaid was picked up from Kanchanbagh Friday evening by a special team from the Central Crime Branch of Bangalore police.
He was picked up based on the confession of the suspects picked up in Karnataka on Thursday.
Sources said that some of the suspects are alleged to have pasted certain posters which spoke of “innocent muslim youths languishing in jails” across Old City sometime ago.
Sources further said that Obaid allegedly had links with the Harkat- Ul-Jihad-Al-Islami (HUJI).
“He is part of the module busted in Karnataka, who were plotting to kill MPs, MLAs and journalists with rightist leanings,” a police official said.
The official added that the other suspects picked up are reportedly members of the Popular Front of India (PFI), a confederation of Muslim organisations in the country, which advocates for minority and underprivileged groups by holding demonstrations and marches.
Sources said that the suspects were reportedly linked with spreading of rumour- SMSes and posting of messages on the internet following the violence in Assam, with a view to flare up communal tension.
“Facts will come out only after they are questioned. As far as the Hyderabad police is concerned, we have not been informed about the role of anyone. We have just assisted in picking them up,” sources said.
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