T.N. police arrest terror suspect who remained elusive for 30 years 

The Tamil Nadu police have arrested Abubacker Siddique, a terror suspect needed in a number of bomb blasts instances, who was on the run for over 30 years. He was apprehended together with one other long-time absconding accused Mohammed Ali alias Yunus alias Mansoor from Annamayya district in Andhra Pradesh.

Abubacker Siddique was evading arrest since 1995 and was implicated in a number of main terror-related incidents, together with the 1995 Hindu Munnani workplace blast in Chintadripet, Chennai, a parcel bomb explosion in Nagore in the identical yr ensuing within the demise of 1 Thangam, coordinated bomb planting in 1999 at seven areas throughout Chennai, Tiruchi, Coimbatore, and Kerala, the 2011 pipe bomb planting try throughout former Deputy Prime Minister L.Ok. Advani’s Rath Yatra in Madurai, the 2012 homicide of Dr. Arvind Reddy in Vellore, and the 2013 bomb blast close to the BJP workplace in Malleswaram, Bengaluru.

Appearing on particular intelligence, a particular workforce of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested Abubacker Siddique, a local of Nagore, and his affiliate Mohammed Ali, a resident of Melapalayam, Tirunelveli.

Mohammed Ali had been absconding for 26 years and was additionally needed in reference to the 1999 bomb planting incidents at a number of areas in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Each the accused had been produced in a metropolis courtroom and remanded in judicial custody.