Information About Incident 34247-63802-150496 in Tirunelveli Kattabo India

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"He has confessed to planning to blow up the Tirunelveli collectorate, and plant bombs on trains and in various parts of Chennai," a police officer said.

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• Meta Location: Tirunelveli Chennai
• Matched District: Tirunelveli Kattabo
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: He
• Subject: the Tirunelveli collectorate , and plant bombs on trains and in various parts of Chennai

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The Q branch of the Tamil Nadu Police on July 27 claimed to have neutralised a terrorist module with the arrest of a 39-year-old suspected fundamentalist who allegedly was part of a plot to cause bomb blasts on trains and in Chennai and Tirunelveli. Sheikh Abdul Gafoor, employed in a shop in T. Nagar in Chennai, was arrested from a relative''s house at Pettai in Tiruneveli and materials for making improvised explosive devices were seized from him, Times of India reported. "He has confessed to planning to blow up the Tirunelveli collectorate, and plant bombs on trains and in various parts of Chennai," a police officer said. All these were to be carried out on or before August 15. Police said the plot was allegedly hatched in Puzhal jail in Chennai and the kingpin was believed to be Pallavaram Ali Abdullah, a life convict. Abdullah was involved in eight cases, and had visited Pakistan in 1997 for training with the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Abdullah, who is in jail since 2003, is a former member of the Jihad Committee and the Islamic Defence Force, both fundamentalist groups active in the last decade. Gafoor, police said, was an expelled member of the Towheed Jamaat, a political organisation dedicated to propagating Islamic religious precepts.

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