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Bangalore, Jan 5: The Bangalore police on Friday arrested a Pakistan-trained militant, suspected to have links with the banned Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

City Police Crime Branch sleuths arrested Imran, who had boarded the Bellary-Bangalore bus on Thursday night near Jalahalli in the outskirts of the city, barely half-an-hour before the vehicle reached its destination, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the team, led by Deputy Commisssioner of Police Ravi Kanthe Gowda, stopped the bus near Jalahalli and arrested the militant.

An AK-47, few grenades, a map and other documents relating to some important locations, which could possibly have been used for a terrorist attack, were recovered from the militant, the police said.

According to reports, Imran was staying in Hospet over the past five years and running a shop, Kashmiri Handicrafts stores, there as a cover for his subversive activities.

Imran's arrest is likely to throw light on the attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore last year in which a scientist was killed and five others had sustained injuries.