Bangalore: Bangalore police have arrested one more youth with alleged links to Lashkar and HuJI as it intensified investigation into terror modules busted in the state, taking the number of those detained in this connection to 17.

City Police Commissioner B.G. Jyothiprakash Mirji on Sunday said the Central Crime Branch wing of the city police arrested 22-year-old Mohammed Akram last night near Majestic area of the city while he was trying to flee from here.

"One foreign-made 7.65 mm pistol along with 16 cartridges and other incriminating articles have been recovered from his possession," Mirji told reporters here.

During preliminary inquiry it was learnt that he hails from Maharashtra's Nanded district. He had been to Saudi Arabia working as driver for a year and returned to India, he said.