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Lucknow encounter: This is how police nabbed suspected ISIS terrorists after Bhopal-Ujjain train blast

Police carried out anti-terror operations after Bhopal-Ujjain train blast near Jabdi station in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Less than 24 hours after the Bhopal-Ujjain train blast, the central agencies and Madhya Pradesh police arrested suspected terrorists, but this was possible because of intelligence experts in Telangana, reported Times of India.

The report said that a small group of intelligence experts had been closely scouring the web after which the suspects were arrested.

Anti-terror operations were carried out to get hold of terrorists, suspected to be linked with the Bhopal-Ujjain train blast near Jabdi station in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday in which at least 10 people were injured, three of them seriously

Mohammed Faisal Khan, Mohammed Imran alias Bhaai Jaan, Mohammad Danish, Mohammad Atif Muzaffar were arrested from Kanpur and Sayyed Meer Husain from Kannauj.

The Telangana unit was minutely tracking all the activity of the suspects and slain terrorist Saifullah even before the plan was executed. He was gunned down in an operation that lasted for nearly 10 hours in the thickly-populated Thakurganj area of Lucknow.

"All the inputs regarding identity and location of the radicalised, IS-inspired suspects came from the intelligence-cum-IT experts of Telangana police, which immediately shared these for further action," a senior intelligence officer told the daily.

However, the officer said that though they busted the module, they could not get a sense of the terror plan in real time as it took time to decipher the encrypted online conversations.

Talking about the encounter,  Uttar Pradesh Police (ADG UP) Daljeet Chaudhary said the youth (Saifullah) was self-radicalised and was influenced by 'literature'.

"These days, people self-radicalise themselves. They read their literature and come under its influence. Also, they follow social media for the same," Chaudhary told the media.

The police recovered eight pistols, three passports, more than 600 cartridges, bomb-making instruments, timers, wires, compass etc from the attack site.

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