By IANS
Bangalore : A Bangalore police team left for Uttar Pradesh to interrogate Sallahudin, one of six Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants arrested there Sunday. He is believed to be one of the masterminds of the 2005 attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here.
Sallahudin’s arrest is a major breakthrough in the IISc attack probe, Director General of Corps of Detectives (CoD) of Karnataka Police Ajai Kumar Singh said here Sunday evening.
A Bangalore police team will question Sallahudin and also bring him here for further interrogation, Singh told reporters.
He said the Karnataka police had tipped off their Uttar Pradesh colleagues on Sallahudin following the arrest of four suspected militants in the state recently.
The information about Sallahudin was obtained from Riyazuddin Nasir, son of a Hyderabadi cleric, who was initially arrested with Asadullah Abubacker on the suspicion of stealing a vehicle in Honnali in central Karnataka district of Davangere in early January, Singh said.
The IISc attack of Dec 28, 2005 was carried out by a lone gunman. M.C. Puri, a retired professor of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, was killed in the attack on the country’s premier research institute.