K'taka terror suspects judicial custody extended

Davangere, Feb 28: The Judicial Magistrate First Class Court, Honnali, has extended the judicial custody of suspected LeT operatives Asadullah Abubaker and Riyazuddin Naser till March 13 here today.

The duo were brought from Bellary Central Jail today, by the police and produced before the the Magistrate, Mr Jinaralkar, who extended their judicial custody. There had been no request by the police for police custody. It was expected that Mumbai and Hyderabad police could be coming with body warrants to take the custody of the two arrested with relation to terror related cases in those cities. However they did not turn up. After the extension of their custody the duo were immediately taken back to Bellary central jail by the police.Asadullah of Hospet in the State and Riyazuddin of Hyderabad were nabbed by the district police at Kadakatte village where they moving suspecisously on a motorcycle stolen from Goa.

On questioning they had reportedly revealed their connection with the banned terror group and their plans to trigger blasts at religious places, IT company headquarters in Bangalore and at famous beaches in Goa targetting the foreign tourists.

Based on the information of the two, the state police had arrested four more people, including medicos and a software engineer, allegedly involved in the network and connected with banned SIMI organisation.

UNI