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The police on Wednesday claimed to have achieved yet another major breakthrough in the January 22 terrorist attack on United States Information Service office, with the arrest of Jamaluddin Nasir, who had allegedly provided backup support to the terrorists.
The police also said that more terrorists were hiding in the city.
Nasir who was arrested from a house in Tiljala area late on Tuesday night admitted during interrogation that he had taken a house at Khirgaon in Hazaribagh from September last year on request from his friend, Asif Reza Khan, earlier killed by the police, Kolkata Commissioner Sujoy Chakraborty said.
He said that Nasir confessed having received on January 16 at Howrah station the two terrorists, Mohammed Zahid alias Idris and Sadaquat, who came by Jodhpur Express, and provided backup support including arranging for their stay at a Tiljala house.
The two were responsible for the January 22 attack on the USIS office in Kolkata.
On whether Nasir was a member of Pakistan based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Chakraborty said that it could not be confirmed now as interrogation was on.
"But Nasir, who used to collect money from different cities in India on instruction from Asif Reza Khan, cannot have any noble purpose," he quipped.
Chakraborty said Nasir was produced in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, which remanded him to police custody till February 13. He was booked under sections 121, 121A, 302, 307, 120 of IPC along with 25 and 27 of the Arms Act.
Asked whether more terrorists were hiding in the city, the police chief said, "Definitely there are many."
Meanwhile, the Jharkhand police said that Hasan Imam, main link between Pakistani terrorist Sadaquat and his accomplice Mohammed Idris alias Mohammed Zahid, was arrested from Sherghati in Bihar's Gaya district and was taken to Hazaribagh for interrogation.
The police said Imam was arrested on a clue given by his father Mohammed Mujahir Hasan who had been detained by police for some time and later released after interrogation.
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