- Thursday, February 27, 2025
It was claimed that the two-day meeting of the country’s opposition parties which took place in Bengaluru on Monday (17) and Tuesday (18), was on the terror hitlist.
By: Shubham Ghosh
BENGALURU, India’s information technology hub, averted a major terror attack after the Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested five terror suspects on Wednesday (19). A massive consignment of explosives and firearms, including pistols, live cartridges and materials used in explosives were recovered from them.
The five arrested were identified as Syed Sohail, Junaid, Umar, Jahid and Mudasir. According to the CCB, the five had made a meticulous plan to carry out serial blasts in the city.
Crime branch officials said the five were arrested after their location was tracked with the help of information. The PTI reported that the men were caught near a place of worship in the Kanakanagar area of Sultanpalya locality of Bengaluru while they were hatching a plot.
The CCB suspected that the five men had planned to carry out a blast in Bengaluru. It also said that the arrested were accused in a six-year-old murder case and were in the city’s Parappana Agrahara Central Jail when they came in contact with some terrorists.
They allegedly received training on handling explosives from the inmates.
Basavaraj Bommai, the former chief minister of Karnataka, called the incident a big conspiracy and demanded the case to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency.
Current chief minister Siddaramaiah, who took over in May, was briefed about the incident by the state’s home minister who used inputs from the intelligence officials, ETV Bharat reported. It was said that the two-day meeting of the country’s opposition parties which took place in Bengaluru on Monday (17) and Tuesday (18), was on the terror hitlist.
Bengaluru has been witness to serial blasts, including in 2008, when a series of eight low-intensity explosions took place across the city in which one was killed and 20 injured.
(With agency inputs)
