IISc terror attack suspect held near Bangla border

One of the prime accused in the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus in Bangalore in 2005,Tadiyantavide Nazeer....

One of the prime accused in the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus in Bangalore in 2005,Tadiyantavide Nazeer,along with an accomplice has been arrested from Meghalaya,government sources said on Wednesday.

Nazeer and his companion,also believed to be a Lashkar operative,were picked up along the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya by the Bangladesh Rifles in a joint operation with the BSF.

Sources said the two suspected terrorists had been handed over to the Indian security agencies by the Bangladesh Rifles and were being questioned in custody about their activities.

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Home Secretary G K Pillai confirmed the arrests,first reported by The Indian Express on Wednesday,but said the authorities were still checking on their identities. We are trying to find out their antecedents and links with terrorist organisations and their activities, he said.

Hailing from Kannur district of Kerala,Nazeer was involved in a fake currency racket before graduating to become a member of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He is one of the main accused in the 2005 shootout at the IISc campus in Bangalore in which a retired professor M C Puri had been killed. Four others were injured in the daring attack.