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| Bloody Monday averted in Delhi: Police | | | NEW DELHI, FEB 5
It could have been a bloody Monday for Delhi as the four Jaish-e-Mohammad militants arrested here after a late-night encounter were planning multiple strikes at crowded markets in the capital today, police claimed.
The interrogation of the four, three Kashmiris and a Pakistani national, has revealed that they were planning to make three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and plant them at busy markets before fleeing to Kolkata.
Shahid Gafoor, hailing from Sialkot district of Pakistan, was an expert in bomb making and he was to assemble the IEDs from the three kg of RDX brought by the Kashmiri militants, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh said.
Interestingly, though police said the strikes were planned for today they were unable to specify the markets.
Police said Gafoor had arrived in the capital early yesterday by Poorva Express From Kolkata, where he had reached after crossing the border from Bangladesh last month.
"He had received arms and ammunition training in Pakistan and is previously involved in two terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, including an attack on a Rashtriya Rifles party in 2002," Singh added.
The investigation has also brought out startling details about terror links in Kolkata as the Kashmiri militants have confessed to have visited the eastern metropolis last month to deliver the US currency recovered from them to somebody.
"The three Kashmiri militants -- Bashir Ahmed Ponnu, Fayyaz Ahmed Lone and Abdul Majeed Baba -- had visited Kolkata in the last week of January. They were to receive Rs 20 lakh from someone in lieu of the USD 10,000 that we have recovered from them. But that meeting did not take place," he said. |
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