Hunt on for terror suspect in Telangana

Hyderabad, April 6, 2015: Police in Telangana on Monday continued combing operations for one more terror suspect believed to be holed up in Nalgonda district, where two operatives of the banned SIMI were killed in a gunfight on Saturday. Six police teams and personnel of elite anti-Maoist force Greyhounds are participating in the large-scale operations at different places in Nalgonda districts and also a part of neighbouring Warangal district. Armed policemen were seen checking vehicles on the roads and frisking people at different places especially around Arvapally where the two assailants were thought to be hiding after gunning down two policemen at Suryapet town on the intervening night of April 1-2. The attackers were killed in a gunfight with police on April 4 morning at Janakipuram. A policeman was killed and two officers were injured. Police suspect that a third suspect may still be hiding in the area. The suspicion grew stronger after Delhi-Hyderabad AP Express train ticket was found on the body of one of the two operatives of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The ticket indicates that a suspect reached Hyderabad by the train on April 2.