New Delhi: The Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested nine men with links to Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, for planning attacks in Delhi, Mumbai and other parts of the country.
The arrested accused are residents of Delhi, Mumbai, and Punjab, and some are foreign nationals, the police said. A large quantity of ammunition and weapons was also recovered from their possession.
Officials said that they were tasked to attack “vital installations and security personnel”. These included nuclear facilities, airports, railway stations, and power plants, sources told NDTV.
The module was under surveillance for some time, officials said. They are now probing possible cross-border linkages, funding channels and the role of overseas handlers in directing the activities of the module.
Delhi has been on high alert following intelligence inputs indicating a possible terror threat. Security agencies had earlier this month received alerts regarding possible attempts to target prominent offices and crowded areas in central Delhi using suicide attacks, vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (IEDs), shootings and coordinated strikes.
All district units have been instructed to remain alert and maintain close coordination with intelligence agencies and central paramilitary forces, NDTV reported.
Fifteen people were killed in November 2025 in a high-intensity vehicle-borne IED Blast near the Red Fort. Umar-un-Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor working at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, near Delhi, was driving the Hyundai i20.
The other key accused in the case were identified as Kashmir residents Muzammil Shakeel Ganai, Adeel Ahmed Rather and his brother Muzaffar Ahmed Rather, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, and Uttar Pradesh’s Shaheen Saeed. Some of them also worked at Al-Falah University.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation revealed that they were part of a “white-collar” terror module linked to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group.
