Andhra Pradesh terror crackdown: Explosives, IEDs seized from homes of Al Ummah operatives; duo linked to major blasts in TN, Kerala, Karnataka
Police said the two terror suspects are affiliates of terrorist organization Al Ummah.
Kurnool DIG Koya Praveen and Annamayya SP Vidyasagar Naidu said on Thursday that the two suspects - Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali - had shifted base to Rayachoti and were living there for the last two decades with different aliases, Amanullah and Mansoor, respectively. They were involved in multiple terror acts in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka.
However, they remained elusive for the last two decades.
Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh each.
A native of Nagore in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, Abubacker is a key accused in several high profile terror cases, police said, adding that he was involved in the 1995 blast at Hindu Munnani office in Chintadripet, and the 1995 parcel bomb explosion at Nagore in which one Thangam Muthukrishnan was killed.
"He was involved in the pipe bomb attempt during former deputy prime minister LK Advani's rath yatra in Madurai in 2011. Abubacker is also a suspect in the murder of Dr Aravind Reddy in Vellore in 2012 and in the blast at the BJP office in Bengaluru in 2013," police said.
The other suspect, Mohammed Ali, is said to an explosives expert and is also an accused in the coordinated blasts targeting police facilities in TN and Kerala in 1999.
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