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Main accused in the 2006 Kozhikode twin bomb blasts case and a confidant of suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant T Nazir was arrested in the wee hours on Tuesday,the police said.
Parapanagadi Yosuf was nabbed at 2 am from nearby Ambelamedu and the National Investigation Team (NIT),which is probing the case,had been informed,the police said.
Yosuf admitted during interrogation that on directions of Nazir,the main accused in the 2005 Tamil Nadu bus burning case,he had gone to Kannur and brought the bombs wrapped in a polythene packet which were placed at the mofussil and KSRTC bus stands in Kozhikode on March 3,2006,the police claimed.
On September 9,2005,when a Tamil Nadu bus was burnt at nearby Kalamassery,he along with T Nazir,now in the custody of the Karnataka Police,and another accused Ummer Farook were at the house of PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madhanis wife,Soofiya listed as 10th accused in the case the police said.
Halim,another accused arrested in the case,had informed Soofiya immediately after the bus was set afire,Yosuf told the police.
They said Yosuf was a close friend of terror suspect Abdul Rahim,the Keralite youth allegedly recruited for militant activities in Kashmir who later died there.
