Maintaining that they were yet to be informed about charges against the four, the family members told reporters here that they planned to take legal recourse.
Ata-ur-Rehman Siddique, brother of Muti-ur-Rehman Siddique, a journalist who was among the 11 arrested yesterday for their suspected links to Lashkar-e-Taiba and HUJI, said his sibling was a "hard working, sincere and succesful reporter."
"On Wednesday night, I got a call from Siddique's friend that he had been picked up by the City Crime Branch. I still do not have any information from the CCB," Ata-ur-Rehman Siddique, a businessman based in Hubli, claimed.
"I have full faith in police and the judiciary. Let a proper investigation be conducted," he said.
Sheikh Rafiq Ahmad Sholapur, father of Dr Jafar Iqbal Sholapur, who was arrested from Hubli, said his was a much respected family. (MORE)