Bengaluru: Police custody of IM operatives extended

Police custody of four suspected operatives of the banned Indian Mujahideen, arrested recently, was extended till February 3 by a court in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

"Court has extended the Police custody of Aafaaque, Abdus Saboor, Riyas Syeedi & Saddam Hussain upto February 3, 2015 in IM Explosive Seizure case," DCP Crime (Bengaluru) Abhishek Goyal in a tweet said.

Court has extended the Police custody of Aafaaque, Abdus Saboor, Riyas Syeedi & Saddam Hussain upto 3rd Feb,2015 in IM ExplosiveSeizure case

— Abhishek Goyal (@goyal_abhei) January 21, 2015

The Police custody of all the four suspects ended on January 21.

Bengaluru Police on January 8 had claimed to have unearthed a terror module of IM with the arrest of its three alleged operatives and seizure of a huge cache of explosives during raids on their houses at Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district and Bengaluru.

The fourth alleged operative was arrested on January 11 at the Mangaluru international airport before flying to Dubai. City Police Chief MN Reddi had earlier said that the suspects were part of a terror module that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives.

The IM operatives transferred money through Hawala channels for funding and at least one of them attended meetings in a foreign country, where a conspiracy was hatched to manufacture and deliver deadly explosives which were probably used for blasts in different parts of the country, he had said.

Police had also said that the interrogation of the IM operatives was throwing light on the sourcing of explosives in bomb blast cases after 2010, adding that the arrest of the accused will fill the missing links in the investigation of various terror cases across the nation.