By IANS
Bangalore : Police teams from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa have come to Karnataka to interrogate two people arrested in central Karnataka recently on suspicion of terror links, a top police official said here Thursday.
The police picked Asadullah Abubaker and Mohammed Raziuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse up Jan 11 in Honnali in central Karnataka as they were riding a two-wheeler but carrying three helmets.
On interrogation it was found that they were travelling on a stolen vehicle. Raziuddin Nasir is the son of a Mohammed Naseeruddin, a Hyderabad resident arrested and detained in Gujarat in connection with murder of Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003.
The state police claim in the last one week the two suspects confessed to their links with terror groups.
On the basis of their confessions, a final-year medical student of government-run Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in Hubli, Mohammed Asif, was arrested Wednesday night from his college hostel.
The police claim that information provided by Nasir suggests the student was linked to the Hyderabad Mecca Masjid blast late last year.
In view of such information, police teams from Andhra, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa have come to interrogate the suspects, a senior Karantaka police official said.
The Goa police also want to interrogate the two to know whether they had any link with the murder of a foreign tourist late last year, the official said but declined to give details.
He, however, added that the two suspects have been making contradictory statements and it is too early to definitely say that they had terror links even though maps of several key installations in Karnataka like dams and airports and CDs with ‘jehadi’ literature were found in their possession.