Three arrested for abetting Pakistani terrorists

Mysore, Oct 29 (UNI) Mysore police today arrested three more people in the city in connection with the recent nabbing of two Pakistani-born Al Badr terrorists who were plotting to blast vital installation including the secretariat building in Bangalore.

Mysore city police commissioner Praveen Sood said the three were identified as Sadiq alias Shariff alias Chacha, Nanjappa and Gopal.

They were arrested for aiding the insurgents to get ration card, birth and domicile certificates from the City Corporation.

A police party which went to Kerala today questioned four people including the cousin of Karachi-born Fahad who is one of the arrested.

Meanwhile, Director General of Police B S Sial, speaking to reporters in Bangalore, categorically denied that the Friday encounter that led to the arrests was fake. ''It was a genuine police operation,'' he said.

Media reports suggested that Fahad had been picked up by the Mysore police two weeks before the encounter.

Mr Sood said that Shariff, a tout who frequented the city corporation and government offices, had taken the two terrorists to the other two agents who helped them get the certificates. The two agents were paid 'to get things done' in the city corporation.

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