Two suspected Laskher-e-Toiba militants were arrested in the capital and 1.5 kg of RDX was recovered from them, a senior police official said on Monday.
Updated at 5.49 pm
NEW DELHI: Two operatives of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Laskhar-e-Tayiiba were arrested here with 1.5 kg of RDX they had procured from Mumbai as police claimed to have thwarted an attempt to carry out strikes in the capital.
Gulzar Ahmed Ganai and Mohd Amin Hazam, both hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on Sunday night in Mahipalpur locality of Southwest Delhi, a senior police official said on Monday.
Twenty-year-old Gulzar is a second year BA student of Government Degree College, Baramulla and Mohd Amin is a Junior Assistant in Revenue Department posted at Pattan. Both of them were "carriers" and were working for the LeT for money.
Besides the explosives, police have recovered Rs 6 lakh and two detonators from them and taken into custody the person who had provided them shelter in the capital, senior police officials said.
"The duo had arrived here in the last week of November and then went to Mumbai on the instructions of Abu Tahir, a district commander of LeT. They then collected the explosives from Nazir at Gateway of India," Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told reporters.
He said police are yet to identify their target in the capital as the two, who arrived here on Sunday by train from Mumbai, were waiting for further instructions from their LeT bosses.
"They were nabbed on their return from Mumbai. They had instructions to proceed to their hideout here and wait for further directions for delivering the explosives," Singh said.
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