5 Suspected Terrorists Arrested In Bengaluru For Plotting Attack

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) nabbed five people today in Bengaluru who were thought to be planning a terror attack in the capital of Karnataka.

The police are looking for another suspect, Junaid, from Bengaluru’s RT Nagar area. They don’t know where he is right now, but they think he lives abroad and is the mastermind behind giving the five people who were caught weapons and explosives.

Suhail, Omar, Zahid, Mudasir, and Faisal, the five people in custody, are all from Bengaluru and are between 25 and 35 years old. They were all caught in 2017 and spent 18 months in jail for a murder case before being let out in 2019.

The CCB has also taken explosives from the hands of the suspects. They also had guns and knives with them.

During questioning, the suspects said that they had talked to T Nazeer, who is being held in Bengaluru Central Jail (Parapanna Agrahara) on terrorism charges.

The police chief of Bengaluru, Dayanand B, says that Nazeer radicalized the five.

The accused and another person who was not in the country were involved in a murder case in 2017. Mr. Dayanand said that the one abroad gave them guns so they could do terrorist acts.

The top police officer also said that the Bengaluru Police is working with agencies in the center of the country to find Junaid.

There are worries that the claimed radicalization of prisoners in Karnataka could turn these jails into places where terrorists grow up.

Nazeer is blamed for the series of bombings that happened in Bengaluru in 2008. In another case, Mohammad Shariq, the main suspect in the Mangaluru cooker bomb case from last year, is thought to have been radicalized in Belagavi jail by a terror suspect who was arrested in the Hyderabad bomb blast case.