After arresting two Lashker-e-Tayiba ultras with explosives, Delhi Police have launched a hunt for two more terrorists of the outfit believed to be in the capital to disrupt the Independence Day celebrations.
The two terrorists are suspected to be the contacts of the duo, arrested with around two kilograms of RDX and five detonators from the New Delhi railway station late Thursday night. The arrested militants have revealed that they had a 'couple of contacts' in the capital, raising suspicions about the existence of an underground terror module in New Delhi, possibly tasked to disrupt the celebrations.
On the basis of information given by the two, Special Cell sleuths are 'tracking' certain people and monitoring their phone calls to unearth any terrorist plot, sources in the elite anti-terrorist unit told PTI.
Abu Anas, a Pakistani national, and Abrar Ahmed have told police that they visited Kashmir earlier this month and collected explosives from there, the sources said.
"We are trying to check the information given by them. It is for sure that they knew some people in Delhi," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity. The focus of the investigation is on the 25-year-old Anas, who has told police that be belonged to the LeT.
"We want to know on whose instructions he had come here and what was his mission," the official added.
According to police, Abrar is the son of Irfan Ahmed, an accused in the blasts in trains in Hyderabad, Surat, Lucknow, Gulbarga and Indergarh in Rajasthan in 1993. Irfan, an active member of 'Tanzim Mujahiddin Islam al Hind' headed by Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda, was arrested after the blasts, but he escaped while released on parole. Police believe he is now settled in Nepal.
Abrar has been acting as a local agent of the Pakistan- backed terror outfit by providing shelter and logistic support to militants, the sources said. Their arrest came at a time when the capital was on a state of high alert in view of the Independence Day with police launching surprise searches and verification in the walled city and adjoining areas.
Meanwhile, the duo were produced before a local court which remanded them to 10 days police custody. Police told the court that they need more time for interrogation of the two to find out details about the terror module and source of the explosives.
