NEW DELHI: A suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militant was arrested at the New Delhi railway station shortly before he was to board a train for Maharashtra on Tuesday.
The Delhi police claim to have seized a consignment of chemical explosives, four detonators and two timers from him. They are trying to ascertain whether the suspect planned to create disturbances during Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Maharashtra.
Acting on an intelligence tip-off, sleuths of the Special Cell laid a trap and arrested the suspect at the Ajmeri Gate side of the station around 12-45 p.m. According to the police, a Pakistani passport identifying him as 27-year-old Yusuf and a Jammu and Kashmir identity card bearing his name as Salim were seized from him.
The police found two types of chemicals, besides the detonators and timers, in his baggage. He was carrying a suitcase and a handbag, and the chemicals were stuffed in two boxes of sweets. Some papers containing phone numbers of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan were purportedly seized from him.
It is learnt that during interrogation he identified himself as Mohammad Aslam of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. “We are cross-checking the information provided by him. He could have been assigned the task of ferrying the consignment,” said an official. The police suspect that the alleged militant recently visited Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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