DRDO staffer arrested for terror link

(Siasat News)DRDO employee and a journalist among 11 men arrested by Karnataka Police for alleged links with global terror outfits.

During investigation they told the group had plans to assassinate MPs and MLAs from the state, a businessman and two journalists from Bangalore.

Police said all had links with international terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadal-Islami.

One of the arrests is Ejaz Mohammed Mirza who works for Airborne Early Warning and Control System, a DRDO division

State police Chief Lalrokhuma Pachau told that they found an imported 7.65 mm revolver, seven bullets, computers, hard disks, mobile phones and religious tracts in their possession.

Other arrested in Bangalore are Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui, 26; Shoaib Ahmed Mirza alias Chhotu, 25; Abdullah alias Abdul Hakim Jamadar, 25; Ejaz Mohammed Mirza, 25; Mohammed Yusuf Nalbandh, 28; and Riyaz Ahmed Byahatti, 28.

—-Siasat News