New Delhi: Delhi police, early on Thursday morning, claimed to have foiled a major terrorist plot to carry out attacks in the city with the arrest of two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants with a huge quantity of explosives in northwest Delhi.
Ghulam Rasool Bafanda and Imran Ahmad Kirmani - hailing from Jammu and Kashmir - were arrested from a shopping complex in Rohini locality by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police last week.
Imran, a resident of Kupwara district, is an aircraft engineer.
"Around 1.5 kg of RDX, Rs 4.5 lakh and two automatic timers were recovered from them. They were planning a major terrorist activity in the capital," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.
Imran has been residing in the capital for the past one year and providing logistic support to an LeT module in the capital.
His brother Furkan is a Pakistani national and a self-styled divisional commander of the outfit in Jammu and and Kashmir, he said.
Kumar said police had received "specific information" that a LeT militant codenamed "Khalid" had set up a base in the capital for procuring and diverting funds collected through hawala channels.
They also came to know that the suspected militant was staying in Dwarka after which they increased surveillance in the locality.
He said police got a tip off on October 16 that the ultra would come to a shopping complex in Dwarka with a consignment of cash for delivering to someone, following which they laid a trap and arrested the duo.
During interrogation, Ghulam Rasool told police that he had collected the explosive from one Shabbir from Azadpur fruit market and was to deliver it to one Tariq.
He was also tasked with collecting the money for terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Police, however, did not disclose the whereabouts of Shabbir and Tariq and said a hunt was on to nab both of them.
Teams have been sent to Jammu and Kashmir and adjoining areas of the capital and nab the other accused, Kumar said.
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