Police bust LeT terror module, arrest 7 illegal foreigners
New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- The Special Cell of the Delhi Police said it has dismantled a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) module comprising "highly radicalised operatives" in a multistate counter-terror operation, and arrested eight operatives-most of them Bangladeshi nationals who have reportedly entered India illegally on forged identities and were operating under a Pakistan-backed handler, officers aware of the developments said.
Additional commissioner of police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah said coordinated raids were conducted at Kolkata, and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu. Seven are Bangladeshi nationals, and one is an Indian national from West Bengal.
"The module was being directed by Shabir Ahmad Lone alias Raja alias Kashmiri, a trained LeT militant from Jammu and Kashmir, who is currently based in Bangladesh," Kushwah said.
The arrests were made in a probe initiated on a complaint lodged on February 8 by a CISF shift in-charge at the Supreme Court Metro station, alleging pro-Pakistan and pro-terror posters being pasted at the Janpath Metro Station. During verification, similar posters were found at multiple locations across Delhi, police said.
The posters, police said, contained photographs glorifying slain alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Burhan Wani in Urdu and also some pertaining to Kashmir.
Police said that regardless of the poster case, they were on alert due to recent political developments in Bangladesh. "Application of human and technical intelligence yielded actionable inputs regarding the movement of suspects in Delhi and Gurugram. Their location was traced to Kolkata," Kushwah said....
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