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| Two more suspected LeT terrorists arrested in Gujarat | | |
Ahmedabad, Sept 19: Gujarat Crime Branch officials have arrested two more terrorists on Tuesday, who are suspected to have links with terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. The arrests have been made a day after the officials held two Lashkar militants from the city.
The two militants have been identified as Mufiz and Imran.
According to Manoj Shashidhar, DCP, Crime Branch, Ahmedabad, police got the details of the militants from the interrogation of the two LeT operatives arrested yesterday. With these arrests, Gujarat Crime Branch police have claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy of the outfit to spread its tentacles across various states.
Shashidhar said that one of the two arrested is from Bengal. He refused to divulge any more details saying that the investigations are still on.
Acting on the information given to them, police nabbed the two operatives from the city suspected to be from the sleeping cell of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
"Two more operatives of a sleeper cell of LeT, operating in the state have been arrested. These arrests are significant and were made on the basis of information revealed by those arrested yesterday," Crime Branch Joint Commissioner P Pandey said.
The police yesterday nabbed the two at a guesthouse in Kalupur area of Ahmedabad. While one of them, Iliyas Memon, is from Shah Alam area in the old city, Khalid is said to be from Jammu and Kashmir.
Police also said there could be a possible link between the Mumbai blasts, arms recovery in Aurangabad, the Ahmedabad station blast and the arrests in Delhi.
The state has been on an alert following bomb blasts in Mumbai and Malegaon with heightened security at all public places.
Now the LeT network could have spread to Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Godhra, Surat, Bhopal, Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Patna and cities in Jammu and Kashmir.
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