Hyderabad: The two assailants who were gunned down on Saturday were wanted men who had escaped in a jailbreak in MP in 2003.
Cops say the gang had attacked more than 10 banks across the country. Cops have started a process of comparing fingerprints and faces of the two with available fingerprints and CCTV footages of Choppadandi robbery.
Officials said that the two had come from New Delhi to Hyderabad in train. "A train ticket found from their possession showed they came to Hyderabad from Delhi. They later took a bus ticket to MGBS to Vijayawada. We are still probing their plans," said an official.
The killers had allegedly taken shelter in the Arvapally dargah during the time of Urs on Friday after alighting at the bus station in Suryapet. The police has taken the cleric and the management members of the dargah into custody.
“We have interrogated them to confirm the information that the duo were staying in the Dargah on Friday. Though they denied it, we are still probing,” said Nalgonda SP Prabhakar Rao.
Locals said there were nearly 300 people at the dargah as part of Urs and the duo must have sneaked in. However, how they managed to get in with a carbine hs baffled the police. "On Friday night, 300 people stayed back in dargah. We are looking into the possibilities on how they got inside with the weapons," said the SP.
The NIA had launched a probe into the Choppadandi robbery to find out if the the gang had any connections with the Burdwan blasts.
