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Thiruvananthapuram: Reports that terrorists are using Kerala as a base got more traction as the Corps of Detectives (CoD) arrested a software engineer from the state over alleged links with a banned group.
A number of reports have in recent months pointed to clandestine operations of terror groups in the state.
The arrest of the young engineer suspected of links with the Students Islamic Movement of India has underlined that theory.
There is suspicion that youth from Kerala are being lured into terrorist outfits, either through monetary offers or through distorted teachings. Yahya Khan was apprehended at the Mico layout police station limits of Bangalore on Thursday. It is reported that four of his alleged accomplices escaped during the operation.
His arrest reportedly capped a close watch that the Bangalore police had been keeping on the activities of SIMI members. The arrested engineer is learnt to be working with a multinational information technology company in Bangalore.
Some reports, however, said the engineer's name was Mohammad Yahya and that though he had been working with a multinational company he was presently unemployed.
Reports say that the police swooped down on Yahya Khan following information supplied by a medical student and another SIMI activist who were recently arrested in Hubli in Karnataka.
SIMI has been banned since 2001 and prior to that the organisation had had an office near Guruappanpalayam, the area from where Yahya Khan was taken into custody.
Following his arrest, police have reportedly begun quizzing former SIMI activists from different districts of Karnataka. The police area also looking to Yahya Khan's alleged role in a shooting in the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2004.
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