B'lore Police seize more arms from arrested terrorist

Bangalore, Jan 6: A team of City Crime Bureau officials todayseized arms and ammunition, including a AK 56 rifle, from the house ofBilal Ahmed Kota, the suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist arrested hereyesterday, at Ranipet in Hospet.

Briefing newspersons here, City Police Commissioner N Achyuta Raosaid the arrested was produced before the first Additional ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate court and remanded to police custody for 14days. Later, he was taken to Hospet, where upon his voluntarydisclosure, police seized 200 rounds of ammunition, five hand grenades,two magazines of AK 56 and a charger for satellite phone.

Replying to queries, he said interrogation of the suspectedterrorist and interaction with the Maharashtra and Jammu and KashmirPolice revealed that his name was Bilal Ahmed Kota alias Imran Jalalalias Salim (34). He was a resident of Sadarbal in Hazratbal inSrinagar. His father Shamshuddin was a clerk in a private transportcompany and his brother Hilal Ammed was a driver in the J and K Foodand Civil Supplies Corporation.

Kota was arrested yesterday while in transit to Bangalore and ahuge cache of arms and ammunition, including an AK 47, was recoveredfrom him. Police claimed that the Bangalore airport, IT majors Infosysand Wipro were on his hit list as he carried a city map with theseprominent places marked.

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