Muslim youth arrested in Thudiyalur, was planning attacks on Hindu leaders
Muslim Gang planning to kill Indu Makkal Katchi Arjun Sampath
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore city police have arrested a Muslim youth who was part of the seven-member gang which planned to murder leaders from a Hindu outfit. Last month, six Muslim youth who had links with extremist groups were arrested for plotting to murder the president of the Indu Makkal Katchi, Arjun Sampath, and also Moogambikai Mani, a Hindu Munnani speaker.
On Friday, the city police arrested another accused, A. Shahul Hamid alias 'Vaikari' Sahul, 27, from Idinthakarai, Tirunelveli district. He was picked up from his father-in-law’s house in Thudiyalur where he was hiding for the last one month.
City police commissioner A.K. Viswanathan said Shahul Hamid was not a 'hardened' extremist but involved in terror-related cases across the state. The Coimbatore police had arrested him when he was planning to murder a few Hindu leaders, the commissioner said.
In August, six Muslim youth - N. Saddam Hussein(24) of Nawab Hakeem Road, A. Nowshad (30) from Sukrawarpet, Y. Rahmathullah (24) from Oppanakara Street, M. Abdul Rasheed from Saramedu, H. Mohammed Azharuddin (27) from Fathima Nagar, and the main accused, Syed Abdul Rahman Umari (30) from Selvapuram - were arrested. The police had been on the look-out for Shahul Hamid.
The seven-member gang is suspected to have links with the killers of K.P. Suresh Kumar, a Hindu Munnani functionary in Tiruvallur district. Selvapuram police inspector Ravi Kumar said Shahul Hamid had been booked under sections 120 (b) (criminal conspiracy), 505 (ii) (statement conducing to public mischief) and 153 (a) (promoting enmity between different groups) of the IPC. He has since been lodged in Coimbatore central prison.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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