Feb 21 2007, India: The Bangalore police arrest a suspected terrorist Mohammad Yahya Kammakutty, an electrical engineer in Bangalore, belonging to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). He was suspected of being connected to the attacks on the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISC) , Bangalore. His three companions, however, managed to escape.
Yahya was arrested from the Gurranpannapalya area on Bannerghatta Road in the city by a team of Corps of Detectives (CoD) of Bangalore police on Thursday. He was arrested on the basis of information disclosed during the interrogation of a terrorist who was recently arrested in Uttar Pradesh.
The 32-year-old suspect is a native of a village near Kozhikode in Kerala and has worked with General Electric (GE) Software in the past.
According to the police he had been living in Banglaore for the last eight years and was unemployed for the past few months after the firm GE sacked him last year for his rather suspicious activities.
Yahya was arrested from the Gurranpannapalya area on Bannerghatta Road in the city by a team of Corps of Detectives (CoD) of Bangalore police on Thursday. He was arrested on the basis of information disclosed during the interrogation of a terrorist who was recently arrested in Uttar Pradesh.
The 32-year-old suspect is a native of a village near Kozhikode in Kerala and has worked with General Electric (GE) Software in the past.
According to the police he had been living in Banglaore for the last eight years and was unemployed for the past few months after the firm GE sacked him last year for his rather suspicious activities.
