A man suspected to be a member of a banned organisation was detained on Sunday with a large cache of explosives and two timer devices with plans to blow up several places on the Independence Day, police said.
A police official said said initial interrogation revealed that Sheikh Abdul Ghaffoor, 39, had plans to bomb state capital Chennai and three other cities in Tamil Nadu including the collectorate in Tirunelveli, at least six trains and one beyond the state's border; and the suspect is said to be working with either a textile or leather showroom in a suburb of the metropolis. There are indications the plot was hatched in a prison cell in the outskirts of Chennai by alleged ringleader P Ali Abdullah, a life convict serving sentences since 2003 and trained in Pakistan before conviction
The man Abdullah, involved in at least eight cases and serving multiple sentences, was being questioned inside the prison, officialy and kept secretly.
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