Indian doctor arrested over alleged militant plot
Nayeem Siddiqui was detained late on Sunday in Davangere, 250 kilometres from Bangalore, in the latest of more than a dozen arrests after police said they had foiled the alleged assassination plan.
Siddiqui and the other suspects have been held under anti-terrorism laws for suspected links to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which is blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the Harkatul Jihad alIslami (HuJI) militant outfit.
"During questioning the police learnt that Siddiqui was providing logistic and financial support to the (other) accused," Bangalore police commissioner Jyotiprakash Mirji told AFP.
Mirji said the detained Muslim men, aged between 21 and 30, were suspected of planning to kill politicians in Bangalore, the editor of a regional newspaper and a local reporter because of their "anti-Muslim bias".
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@amir farooq: they're free to go if they don't like it Amir; what keeps them in India? Help them and India out brother, ask the government to sponsor family visas for all Indian Muslims
wrong headline !!! All other headlines will read ... Hindu Doctor arrested for alleged terror links ... so why this is not mentioned as A muslim Indian doctor arrested for terror links .... Hyipocrates ...
Misleading headlines - Indian Muslim Doctor arrested - since Pakistanis measure everything with a man's faith.
I am wondering why they didn't leave India in 1947.
Misleading headline. Implies that some Indian was held overseas in a terror plot. At the very least the headline should have said " Indian authorities foil a terror plot by arresting a doctor with links to LeT/HuJI". The fact is that the doctor was arrested not because of his nationality but for his links to the terror outfits.