Bengaluru: On Thursday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) apprehended a suspected militant with ties to the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
According to sources, the arrested individual’s name is Girish Bora. He lived with his family at the Jigani Industrial Area near Anekal, on the outskirts of Karnataka’s capital.
An NIA team from Assam raided and arrested Girish Bora after receiving a tip-off that he was reportedly associated with ULFA.
Sources said Girish Bora planted Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) throughout Guwahati before leaving the city.
Sources further revealed that the suspected terrorist had planted IEDs at five locations in Guwahati in Assam.
Girish Bora had shifted his family to Bengaluru and settled here.
A source in the know said that Girish Bora, disguising his actual identity, joined a private company as a security guard.
He also generated fake documents and assumed a new identity as Gowtham.
According to sources, the NIA will soon present Girish, a.k.a. Gowtham, at a local court and then take him to Assam.
Following the development, the authorities in Bengaluru have been put on high alert.
Intelligence agencies have been directed to monitor the movements of suspicious and wanted persons in Bengaluru.
The investigation agencies believe that the IT city of Bengaluru has long been a safe haven for anti-national elements.
The NIA registered a case against six accused influenced by the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir. This fundamentalist group aims to establish the Islamic caliphate and enforce the Constitution written by its founder, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.
The NIA also recently apprehended a key accused in the Tamil Nadu Hizb-ut-Tahir case from Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport.
The NIA also solved the case of the Bengaluru Cafe blast, which took place in the Whitefield locality, situated in an IT corridor.
On March 1 this year, an IED stored inside a bag exploded at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru.
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–IANS
