It was the Andhra police who came to Bengaluru with definite information on the terror module. The Andhra police were tracking the movements of the 11 suspects for the last 45 days and finally informed the city police to execute the arrest. Some of the arrested suspects are said to have been taken to Andhra Pradesh.
In all possibility, there may be more arrests, said a senior police officer.
A day after Karnataka police made public the arrests of 11 people suspected to be linked to terror outfits based in India and Pakistan, by the Central Crime Branch (CCB), the investigating officers looking into the case moved swiftly to collect more details on the suspected radicals.
While an official complaint has been filed at Basaveshwaranagar police station, several teams probing different leads in the case have fanned out to Andhra Pradesh, Hubli and other places to track the network of the terror module.
Meanwhile, police are going through data from the recovered hard disks and laptops. The mobile phone records of all the suspects are being looked into. The police are also questioning a few colleagues of the suspects to get an idea about the behaviour of the arrested suspects and their network.
There are also possibilities that an important personality, said to be a businessman who was helping the terror suspects, could be arrested any times soon, the officer added.
Sources told Deccan Chronicle that the cyber team was extracting all details from the hard disk seized from the house of Mati-ur-Rehman Siddqui.
“A photograph where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is seen sitting with the editor-in-chief of media group and a journalist lead to suspicion that they were on the hit list”, the officer said, adding that there are several incriminating documents, but cannot be divulged at this stage of investigation.
The eleven suspected terrorists who were arrested from Bengaluru and Hubli were on Thursday produced before a court and remanded to police custody till September 13. They are being interrogated at an undisclosed destination.