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| LeT plot to blow up Bombay Stock Exchange foiled, six held |
| 2008-02-10 |
| LUCKNOW/MUMBAI/BANGALORE: In a dramatic breakthrough in the investigations into the terror attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, the UP special task force on Sunday arrested six alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists. Three of them were bound for Mumbai on Sunday morning to carry out strikes on key installations in IndiaÂ’s financial capital, police said. Two of the arrested terrorists have confessed that they carried out attacks on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2006, police added. A Pakistani national was among those held, and 2 AK series rifles, hand grenades, a pistol and cartridges were recovered from them. UP DGP Vikram Singh told reporters that STF acted on a tip-off that two of the four LeT terrorists involved in the Rampur attack were planning a series of fresh strikes - this time on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Churchgate station, and a temple in south Mumbai - and were hiding somewhere in the Bareilly-Rampur area. Cops also came to know that one Jung Bahadur, alias Baba of Milkamaru locality in Rampur, was coordinating their movements. STF picked him up on February 9. He revealed the whereabouts of two terrorists who were to meet him at the Rampur bus stand. These two were picked up as well and on Saturday night, they identified themselves as Faheem and Mohammed Shareef. Their interrogation revealed that three of their associates were to board a train from Lucknow to Mumbai on Sunday morning. The three were subsequently rounded up from LucknowÂ’s Charbagh railway station. They identified themselves as Sabauddin Ahmad of Madhubani in Bihar, Amar Singh of Gujranwala in Pakistan, and Abu Sama of Kashmir in Pakistan. Of those arrested, Faheem is frequently based in Mumbai and was to play a key role in the attacks on the selected targets in Mumbai. Officials in Mumbai said he holds a Pakistani passport, apart from a "high security" citizen card issued to Pakistani citizens. The passport gives his name as Hammad Hassan, son of Bashir Hassan from Rawalpindi. This appears to be fake, cops said. "BSE was going to be their first target. These terrorists have multiple targets. In case, they fail in one, they quickly move on to the next," said STF SSP Amitabh Yash. |
| Posted by:john frum |