New Delhi, Dec 03: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, who were believed to have been behind the 2005 attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, have been arrested from the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.
Nazir and Shafas were handed over by Bangladesh Rifles to the Border Security Force (BSF) after intelligence was shared about their presence in Bangladesh, official sources said.
Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said: “We’re trying to find out their antecedents and links and their activities.” The two were being questioned.
On December 28, 2005, terrorists stormed the IISc campus and opened fire from automatic weapons, killing a retired Professor of IIT-Delhi, M C Puri, and injuring four others.
–Agencies