Bengaluru: All the six terror suspects who were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from the state have been shifted to New Delhi on Sunday morning.
NIA that secured four-day in-transit custody of the suspects, took six of them to a undisclosed location for questioning on Saturday.

They were taken to New Delhi on separate commercial flights from Kempegowda International Airport, as Directorate General of Civil Aviation norms do not allow more than one arrested person on a flight.

Meanwhile, clarifying on the arrest of Javed Rafeeq NIA sleuths said that he was not linked to the crackdown on other six terror suspects. Rafeeq had stabbed a constable in Bengaluru while trying to resist his arrest on Saturday evening.

According to sources, Rafeeq was a member of Indian Mujahideen (IM) module that carried out the Ahmedabad–Surat terror attacks in 2008 and had been absconding since then. He had recently become active on social media, hence police arrested him, sources said.

Rafeeq and his wife Yasmeen Banu were booked on the charge of assault and were produced before a magistrate in his house in Koramangala on Saturday night. They have been remanded to 15-day police custody.