T.N. police arrest terror suspect who remained elusive for 30 years 

The Tamil Nadu police have arrested Abubacker Siddique, a terror suspect wanted in several bomb blasts cases, who was on the run for over 30 years. He was apprehended along with another long-time absconding accused Mohammed Ali alias Yunus alias Mansoor from Annamayya district in Andhra Pradesh.

Abubacker Siddique was evading arrest since 1995 and was implicated in several major terror-related incidents, including the 1995 Hindu Munnani office blast in Chintadripet, Chennai, a parcel bomb explosion in Nagore in the same year resulting in the death of one Thangam, coordinated bomb planting in 1999 at seven locations across Chennai, Tiruchi, Coimbatore, and Kerala, the 2011 pipe bomb planting attempt during former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani’s Rath Yatra in Madurai, the 2012 murder of Dr. Arvind Reddy in Vellore, and the 2013 bomb blast near the BJP office in Malleswaram, Bengaluru.

Acting on specific intelligence, a special team of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested Abubacker Siddique, a native of Nagore, and his associate Mohammed Ali, a resident of Melapalayam, Tirunelveli.

Mohammed Ali had been absconding for 26 years and was also wanted in connection with the 1999 bomb planting incidents at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Both the accused were produced in a city court and remanded in judicial custody.