Al-Umma terrorists sent to police custody
The court sent them to 13-day remand
Tirupati: Two Al-Umma terrorists, Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik, who were arrested in a joint commando operation by the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu cops in October 2013, were produced at the Additional District Judge’s Court in Puttur on Saturday.
Along with Ismail and Bilal, their close aide Police Fakruddin, who was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Q Branch police near Chennai, was also produced before court by the Tamil Nadu police.
The eight-hour long joint operation by the AP and TN police saw no causalities with the cops successfully taking the two terrorists into custody. The police had recovered 80 gelatin sticks, IEDs, pistols and two bombs from their hideout at Gate-Puttur.
The court sent them to 13-day remand. The three terrorists were shifted to the Central prison at Vellore.