New Delhi: Delhi Police busted a terror network with alleged links to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Bangladeshi militant outfits by arresting eight suspects in a major operation.
While six suspects were apprehended from Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district, two others hailed from West Bengal, sources told news agency ANI.
According to police, those arrested from Tamil Nadu have been identified as Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Shabat, Umar, Mohammad Liton, Mohammad Shahid, and Mohammad Ujjal. All of them are suspected to be Bangladeshi nationals living and working in India Illegally.
Employed in local garment factories, these suspects allegedly used fake Aadhaar cards to mask their identities and engaged in anti-social activities. Police said they propagated pro-Pakistan terro
rist content on social media, coordinating through encrypted platforms. Police recovered eight mobile phones and 16 SIM cards from their possession.
As per the report, while two suspects were arrested from Uthukuli, three were picked up from Palladam, and one from the Thirumuruganpoondi area. The Tamil Nadu group is currently being brought to Delhi by train for intensive interrogation.
The suspects conducted recce across several cities, while a group of four out of eight suspects visited Delhi during the AI Summit and posted ‘Free Kashmir’ and other incriminating posters at a metro Station before going back to Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Authorities are investigating their link with Bangladeshi Tanzeem.
The bust follows intelligence warnings of an imminent Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) attack near Red Fort. Alerts pointed to a potential improvised explosive device (IED) strike on a Chandni Chowk temple in retaliation to a February 6 mosque explosion in Pakistan’s Islamabad.
According to ANI, intelligence sources indicated that key religious places around the Red Fort and Chandni Chowk were on the radar of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), pointing to IED attack plot.