The CoD police achieved another breakthrough in their investigation into the terror network in the region by arresting a house surgeon, working with Karnatak Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), on Sunday.

He is considered an ideologue of suspected terrorists - Asadulla Abubakkar and Mohammed Asif.
The house surgeon was arrested at a farm house on the outskirts of Gulbarga, where he was hiding for the last one week.

Sources said the house surgeon was being grilled by the police at an undisclosed location at Savadatti, near Dharwad, to gather more information about his links with extremist groups and reported plans to blast major installations in North Karnataka.

He would be brought to Hubli-Dharwad tonight or Monday morning for further questioning.
Sources said he used to organise students of a particular community, including Asif, in KIMS campus and teach them Jehadi literature.

Asif, a final year MBBS student at KIMS and Asadulla, an ayurvedic student who are in the police custody for their alleged terror links, used to operate on the directions of the house surgeon.
“It was the house surgeon who was controlling the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activities in North Karnataka and encouraging students to take to jehad.

The house surgeon, who hails from Humnabad in Bidar district, was like a guru to SIMI activists, including Asif, in the KIMS campus,” sources said.

He had been absconding ever since Asif’s arrest. Suspecting him to be an active member of SIMI, the police broke open his room at KIMS campus and seized hundreds of religious books and three hard disks.
Police have already taken Allabaksh Alivulla Yadwad, a local student and close associate of the house surgeon, into their custody.

A SIMI group headed by the house surgeon had played an active role in the attack on IISc, Bangalore, reliable sources said.

It is also learnt that one of the main accused in the IISc attack and an active member of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Abu Abu Jaan, had stayed for a day in Hubli before fleeing to Pakistan after the attack. The local SIMI activists had arranged for his stay in the city, sources added.

Library checked

The cyber police from Bangalore on Sunday visited the digital library at KIMS here to check if the suspected SIMI activists had surfed any banned websites. They searched for more more than an hour in the library. The police also took a statement from KIMS Director M G Hiremath.