Bengaluru: The state police secured the body warrant of Habib Miyan, one of the nine accused in the 2005 IISc terror attack case, and brought him to the city on Sunday. A team of police from Karnataka had gone to Agartala on Saturday in this connection. Miyan was nabbed by the Tripura police on Friday.
A special team from the City Crime Branch (CCB) produced the suspect before the court and he was later taken into police custody for investigation. Police department sources said they are yet to confirm Habib's role in the terror plot and interrogations were on to find out whether he was one of the gunman or one of the conspirators who plotted the attack.
Vishveswaraiah
What happened in 2005?
On December 28, 2005, two attackers opened fire and also threw hand grenades at delegates who had gathered for the 38th Annual Operational Research Society of India at IISc campus. A retired professor Manish Chandra Puri was killed and four others got injured in the attack.
Habib was the seventh accused in the case and is said to be a close aide of Sahabuddin, the main accused who is currently in Lucknow jail.
In 2011, six accused Mohammed Raza-ul-Rehman, Azal Pasha, Mehboob Ibrahim, Miruddin Khan, Nizamuddin and Munna were convicted to life imprisonment.
