Tuesday, January 24 2006 16:31 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bangalore: Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the December 28 Indian Institute of Science terror attack case, police said today (Jan 24, 2006).

This takes the number of those arrested to six. Police said Nizamuddin alias Munna, aged 24, and M Noorulla Khan, 25, both residents of Chintamani in Kolar district in Karnataka, were taken into custody near Hesaraghatta on the city outskirts on Sunday.

The six arrested were in constant touch with each other and had also participated in the meetings in Bangalore and were preparing to carry out 'violent militant activities' in and around Bangalore, police said.

Based on the information given by Nizamuddin, an electrician, and Noorulla, an auto driver, police recovered two tin bombs, one 'tiffin-carrier' bomb, a country-made revolver with three rounds, three electrical detonators and a telephone book that had numbers of other members of the gang.

Police said the two, who are now in police custody for further interrogation, were 'very keen' to undergo 'jihadi' weapon-training plan drawn by Afsar Pasha, who was arrested earlier.

All the four arrested earlier were Lashkar-e-Toiba militants. M C Puri, a retired professor of the Indian Institute Technology, Delhi, was killed and four others wounded in the terror attack.