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| Nationwide Crackdown on LeT Cells After Andhra Arrest | | | Agencies
HYDERABAD, May 4: A massive crackdown on sleeper cells of Lashker-e-Taiba was being carried out nationwide and along the friendly neighbouring countries and three such modules were busted so far which included the terror group's nefarious design to target Hyderabad's HITEC city.
Raids were being carried at nearly a dozen places throughout the country following reports of sleeper cells of LeT mushrooming in suburban and urban areas, government sources said.
The three modules busted by security agencies included LeT's plans to target the HITEC City, a major IT township Hyderabad, and the office of a multinational audit firm. Mohammad Zia-ul Haq, who was arrested yesterday following a tip off by National Investigation Agency, was directed by his LeT handlers to bomb the Hyderabad office of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the four largest auditors in the world, and was in the process of carrying out the plan, the sources said.
Haq works as a driver for a taxi service hired by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Besides, Haq had been tasked to carry out an attack at the Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City (HITEC City), spread over 151 acres and at the centre of the information technology industry in the Andhra Pradesh capital.
He has already procured the explosives supplied by LeT to carry out the attack, the sources said. Haq first came in contact with LeT when he went to Saudi Arabia in 1995. In 2002, following the Gujarat riots, he went to Pakistan and underwent terror training in Karachi and Pakistan occupied Kashmir capital Muzafarabad.
He got training in handling explosives and fire arms including AK-47 and was assigned to cause explosions in crowded areas.
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