Bangalore: Sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested a Bangalore-based doctor Imran Ahmed for being part of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba's Karnataka module busted by city police last year.
Dr Imran Ahmed is accused to be a part of the first group of the module that held meetings in Saudi Arabia to further LeT's cause of targeting Hindu radicals and journalists sympathetic to Hindutva cause.
NIA sources revealed that Ahmed was hiding in Saudi Arabia and had come to Bangalore only a few days back using a forged passport. He was arrested from in Kanakpura Road in Bangalore.
NIA has already prepared a charge sheet against 15 people in the case which includes Obaidur Rehman from Hyderabad who had helped Indian Mujahideen operatives Imran Khan and Syed Maqbool to conduct a reconnaissance of Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad in June 2012.
NIA said, Imran Ahmed alias Immu Bhai had conducted various meetings with Let operatives Akram, Zakir and Furkan in Saudi Arabia to discuss various aspects like recruitment, financial assistance to execute their plans and sending recruits to Pakistan for training.
NIA has already charge sheeted 15 people in the case which includes one Obaidur Rehman from Hyderabad who had helped Indian Mujahideen operatives Imran Khan and Syed Maqbool to conduct a reconnaissance of Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad in June 2012. In February this, twin blasts allegedly executed by IM ripped through the market killing 16 people.
From the module, one Dr Zafar from Hubli had even gone to Pakistan by road crossing Iran from Saudi Arabia.
The NIA said, the probe showed that a conspiracy had been hatched by LeT with their associates in India in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Further reports collected by NIA reveal that the accused persons even decided to kill prominent politicians and journalists in Bangalore, Hubli, Hyderabad and Nanded with an intention of spreading terror and communal disharmony.
The NIA claimed that the accused had collected arms and ammunition, as well as stolen vehicles and collected instruments for committing offences and also received funds from the co-conspirators through illegal means.
The NIA suspects that there are still more people holed up in Gulf countries.
