Pak-trained ultra arrested in Bangalore

Bangalore, Jan 5 (UNI) The Bangalore Police today arrested a Pakistan trained militant, suspected to have links with the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

City Police Crime Branch sleuths arrested Imran, who had boarded the Bellary-Bangalore bus last night near Jalahalli in the outskirts of the city, barely half-an-hour before the vehicle reached its destination, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the team, led by Deputy Commisssioner of Police Ravi Kanthe Gowda, stopped the bus near Jalahalli and arrested the militant.

An AK 47, few grenades, a map and other documents relating to some important locations, which could possibly have been used for a terrorist attack, were recovered from the militant, the police said.

According to reports, Imran was staying in Hospet over the past five years and running a shop 'Kashmiri Handicrafts stores' there as a cover up for his subversive activities.

Imran's arrest is likely to throw light on the attack on the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore in December 2005 rpt December 2005 in which a scientist was killed and five others sustained injuries.

UNI