One more accused in Bangalore blast case held

Wednesday, January 25, 2012: The 23rd accused in the sensational Bangalore blast case, who was declared fugitive and was evading police arrest has been apprehended by the probe team at New Delhi airport on Wednesday.
The accused identified as Muhammad Shameer is a native of Kannur, and was acting as a middleman supplying money for the terror groups, police told. Though the police here had already reported the six militants, all from Kannur district, as absconding, steps are being taken to track them or collect information about their whereabouts in view of the dossiers released by the Home Ministry about 31 Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Jam-I-yyatul Ansarul Muslimeer (JIAM) operatives.
The five other absconding youths are K.P. Sabir; P.V. Muhammad Azhar; P.P. Yusuf ; Shafeeque and P.A. Raysal. Police sources said most of them were involved in the Bangalore blast case and other terror-related cases and are absconding. Sabir is believed to be a key figure of the IM, next to Thadiyantavide Nazir.
Sabir is also a co-accused in the case relating to the plot to assassinate the former Chief Minister E.K. Nayanar and was also involved in planting a bomb at the Coimbatore Press Club. Both Nazir and Sabir are among those who established the terror network in the State. Sabir is believed to have fled to Dubai.
The district appeared on the map of the activities of the terror modules in the country following the unravelling of what is named as the terror recruitment case registered in the Edakkad police station here.