Kumaraswamy to discuss terror with Manmohan Singh tomorrow

Bangalore, July 12 (UNI) Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy who will be on a two-day visit to New Delhi from today, would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to brief him about the investigations terrorist plot allegedly involving three young men from Bangalore who were suspected in the failed attack on Glasgow Airport last month.

The Chief Minister is scheduled to meet Dr Singh tomorrow and later he would also have discussions with Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

The three persons, brothers Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed and their cousin Mohammed Haneef are suspects in the terror attack in Scotland and England.

Kafeel, suspected to be the driver of the blazing Jeep Charokee that rammed into the Glasgow airport, was an aeronautical engineer.

He sustained 90 per cent burns during the terror act and is battling for life in a military hospital in Scotland. Sabeel, his younger brother and a doctor, was held in Liverpool, while Haneef, also a doctor, was detained in Brisbane.

Official sources said apart from terrorist activities, Mr Kumaraswamy would also discuss the stepped up activities by naxalites belonging to the CPI(Maoists) group in Western ghat districts of Chikmagalur, Shimoga and Udupi. Police shot dead five persons, suspected to be naxalits, in an encounter on Tuesday.

While police claimed they were naxals, locals and activists alleged that it was a fake encounter and four of the five killed were civilians.

Home Minister M P Prakash would also accompany the Chief Minister and the two leaders were expected to seek Central assistance to combat naxalism in the state.

The Chief Minister was also expected to brief the Prime Minister about the floods that had hit the normal life in different parts of North Karnataka during the current monsoon and seek aid to take up rehabilitation works.

UNI