Mumbai: Mumbai police on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old terror suspect wanted by their Coimbatore counterparts in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
The accused, identified as Shabbir Kochi, was nabbed by immigration officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here as a lookout notice was issued against him, police said, adding that the officials subsequently handed him over to them.
"Shabbir was arrested and produced before a local court. Coimbatore police is expected to come to Mumbai tomorrow to take the custody of the accused in the case registered under relevant section of Explosive Substances Act after completing all the legal formalities," said Dilip Patil, senior inspector
at Sahar Airport Police Station.
Patil said he had no further details about the case in Coimbatore.
Meanwhile, sources in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which grilled him, said Coimbatore's Race Course Police Station had registered the case against the terror suspect Shabbir in 2002, after which he fled India.
"Shabbir was in Riyadh since then. Immigration officials caught him after his name appeared among those against whom a lookout notice was issued when he landed at the international airport here this morning in an Air India flight," they said.
(With PTI inputs)
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