Overview

• Anti-Terrorism Squad officers apprehended Abubacker Siddique and Mohammed Ali in Andhra Pradesh’s Annamayya district following intelligence tip-offs and joint ATS–IB monitoring.
• Both suspects were produced before a judicial magistrate and remanded to Tamil Nadu Police custody on charges spanning bombings and communal murders since the mid-1990s.
• Searches of their Rayachoti residences yielded raw explosive materials, digital devices and documents critical to uncovering sleeper-cell operations.
• Investigators say the duo lived under aliases while running sari shops to evade detection for three decades across Andhra Pradesh.
• Authorities are examining links to the banned Al Ummah network and revisiting unresolved cases in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka with evidence seized during the operation.