Pak based terrorist outfits spread wings in South India

Bangalore, Oct 27 (UNI) The vital information provided by the Central Intelligence agencies to Karnataka police about the infiltration of the Pakistan based terrorist organisations into Southern India led to the arrest of two Pakistan-born terrorists belonging to banned Al-Badr outfit, which had planned to bomb state secretariat Vidhana Soudha, in Mysore today.

Karnataka Inspector General of police B S Siyal, speaking to newspersons here said, the agencies had alerted the state police about the possible attack on vital installations in the state including the offices of certain major IT companies in Bangalore.

He said the state police was maintaining a strict vigil to thwart any such plan ever since they were alerted by the Center.

Denying that two terrorists were involved in the last year's attack on Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) in Bangalore, Mr Sial said, while the IISc attack was the handiwork of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), those arrested in Mysore last night belonged to the Al-Badr group.

The DGP said that today's arrests had proved that the Pakistan based terrorist outfits had extended their tentacles in the South to disturb peace.

Police teams from Karnataka would be sent to Mumbai, Kozhikode, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir as the state police had secured vital information about the terrorists network from the two terrorists.

One of them had stayed in Kozhikode in Kerala for some time, he added.

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