Manhunt ends after 30 years: Key suspect in 2011 LK Advani attack bid arrested; another terror suspect held | India News

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TIRUPATI: Tamil Nadu anti terrorism squad (ATS) sleuths arrested two absconding terror suspects at Annamayya district in Andhra Pradesh. Acting on particular intelligence, a particular group from the Tamil Nadu ATS apprehended Abubacker Siddique and his shut aide Mohammed Ali alias Yunus/Mansoor at their hideout at Annamayya district. Both Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali carry a reward of Rs 5 lakh every and have been on the run for shut to a few many years now.A local of Nagore in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, Abubacker is a key accused in a number of excessive profile terror instances registered in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.Abubacker was concerned in the 1995 blast executed on the Hindu Munnani workplace (RSS affiliate) at Chintadripet, a parcel bomb explosion in Nagore in 1995 in which one Thangam Muthukrishnan was killed. He was additionally accused in the coordinated bomb blasts focusing on police amenities in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in 1999. Abubacker was additionally accused in the pipe bomb planting try throughout former deputy Prime minister LK Advani’s Rath Yatra at Madurai in 2011. Abubacker was additionally a suspect in the homicide of Dr Aravind Reddy at Vellore in 2012 and in the blasts on the BJP native workplace at Malleswaram in Bengaluru in 2013. Similarly, Mohammed Ali, an explosives knowledgeable, was additionally a key accused in the coordinated blasts focusing on police amenities in TN and Kerala in 1999.The duo, who’ve been on the run for shut to a few many years, have been lastly nabbed by the TN ATS police, and have been shifted to Tamil Nadu amidst tight safety. They shall be produced earlier than the judicial Justice of the Peace for remand to custody by the Tamil Nadu ATS.