The Corps of Detectives (CoD) arrested a software engineer, suspected to have links with the banned group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), at the Mico layout police station limits on Thursday.
However, four of his alleged accomplices escaped during the police operation.
Yahya Khan, a native of Kerala and working in a leading multinational information technology company in the city, was arrested from Guruappanapalya on Bannerghatta Road. The Bangalore police had been keeping a watch on the SIMI activists for the past few days. The CoD team was led by Alok Kumar, Deputy Inspector-General .
Sources in the police told The Hindu that Yahya Khan’s arrest followed the information given by Mohammad Asif, a final-year MBBS student and another SIMI activist, who was arrested in Hubli recently. Police sources said the arrest of Yahya Khan was no surprise as the locality had been the nerve centre of SIMI before the organisation was proscribed in 2001 for its links with terrorist groups. Before its ban, SIMI had an office in the area.
After the terror network in the State was recently busted, the police had put some IT professionals under the scanner. Two weeks ago, The Hindu reported that several IT professionals in leading companies had been under surveillance.
Following directions from Central Intelligence agencies, the State police started questioning several former SIMI activists in Bangalore, Gulbarga and Bijapur.
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