The Bengaluru Police, who claimed to have cracked a terror module that had procured arms and ammunition to carry out subversive activities in the city, recovered four live grenades from the Kodigehalli residence of one of the arrested persons, Jahid Tabrez. The police had recovered seven country-made pistols and 45 live bullets during the arrest of the five suspects.
Even as the city police claimed that the recovery of live grenades from the house of one of the accused was an indication of the module’s capability to carry out blasts and were waiting for a “green signal” from their handlers, family members of Tabrez alleged the grenades were “planted” by the police.
“The grenades the police have claimed to have seized from our house were not from here. The police brought them, placed them here in our house, and claimed to have found them,” said Avez Tabarez, elder brother of the accused. He claimed his brother was framed in a murder case in 2017 because of his friendship with Junaid and since then the police had been harassing the family.
