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A special police team from Bangalore and the Chennai Police detained a Mangalore-based suspect Alim Basheer Mysori in Chennai today in connection with Indian Institute of Science IISc, Bangalore, attack. Two other suspects from Mulbagal and Chintamani, respectively, in Kolar, were also picked up.
The Bangalore Police were hot on Mysori8217;s trail as call records on the mobile phone of the recently arrested Abdul Rahman8212;said to be the Lashkar-e-Toiba8217;s chief of operations in South India8212;indicated connection between them. Details of Mysori8217;s interrogation are under wraps with the police refusing to confirm whether he had a hand in the IISc attack.
Police are also interrogating three suspects apprehended in Kolar district over the last three days. One of them, Shabir Ahmed alias Mustafa, picked up from Malur on Monday, had a licence for selling explosives meant for blasting quarries, police said.
On Tuesday, the Bangalore police and the Chennai police swooped down on eight persons in Chennai, including Mysori. After a grilling session, which began on Tuesday night and continued till Wednesday evening, seven of the suspects8212;from Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu8212;were let off.
Police said that Rahman also went by name of Azdani. Sources said that he had eight passports and had travelled from Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh. He had migrated to Saudi Arabia around 13 years ago and had returned to Nalgonda for Ramzan.
He travelled between Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai to recruit youths to the outfit, according to the intelligence.
