New Delhi: In a major breakthrough, the Intelligence Bureau and the special cell of the Delhi Police have busted a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module active in the national capital. The cops have detained 12 suspects from Delhi, NCR region and Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.
Sources say eight of the 12 Jaish-e-Mohammed suspects have been nabbed from Delhi, while four of them have been picked up from Deoband.
Bomb-making material and IED devices have been recovered from the suspects who are being interrogated at special cell’s headquarters at Lodhi Colony.
The identity and nationality of the suspects have not been disclosed.
Senior cops said involvement of at least five of the suspects was certain. The rest, they said, were found tagging along the main suspects and hence have been detained so that their involvement can be probed. The special cell has registered an FIR against the suspects for being members of an unlawful group under Unlawful Activities and Prevention Act, (UAPA) and under the Explosives Act and for criminal conspiracy.
Three suspected members of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, arrested were remanded to 10-day police custody by a Court as the investigators said their custodial interrogation was needed to crack their Delhi module. “The accused persons are sent to police custody till 14th May,” the court said. The agency while seeking 15-day custody told the Court that the two other accused Shakir and Sameer were later arrested and some literature related to the terror organisation were recovered from them Their movement was being continuously monitored by the central intelligence agencies and special cell of the Delhi Police for last one year, sources said, adding the trio had got indoctrinated through the Internet. While Sajid and Sameer hail from Delhi, Ansari is a resident of Deoband in Uttar Pradesh. They were produced before a Court which remanded them to 10 days’ police custody. The three had been learning to put together IEDs over the past fortnight and last night Sajjid, the alleged kingpin of the group, got injured while making the explosive device. His left hand was damaged when it went off accidentally, prompting the police to swing into action and arrest them. According to the sources, the three had an ideological leaning towards the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group headed by Maulana Masood Azhar, who is wanted by India in connection with 2001 Parliament attack case and the terror strike on Pathankot IAF base in January this year. Besides arresting these three on Tuesday night, police and other security agencies have detained nearly a dozen people for questioning, the sources said.