Hyderabad terror bust: Police release inventory, suspect profiles

The terror module busted jointly by the Hyderabad police and National Investigative Agency in the city was planning a deadly strike in the city during Ramzan and the Bonalu, the state festival of Telangana.

“We can say we had successfully averted a terrorist attack that was planned to be executed in the near future coinciding with two big festivals in the city," a top Telangana police official told Asianet Newsable.

With nearly 40% Muslim population, Ramzan is one of Hyderabad's most important festivals. Bonalu has been accorded the status of a state festival by newly-formed Telangana. Thousands of people congregate at the Hussainsagar lake in central Hyderabad as part of the celebrations.

The NIA last night said the agency had registered a case based on credible information that some youth hailing from Hyderabad and their accomplices were planning to wage a war against India by carrying out explosions in several cities of the country.

The investigating teams searched four houses in the city and recovered two pistols, chemicals that could be used in making explosive devices, pressure and heat timers and ₹15 lakh in cash.

Many of the suspects are well educated with two of them being engineering graduates.