Suspected terrorists held from S Delhi in pan-India drive
New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- Delhi Police's Special Cell, working with the Jharkhand Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), arrested two terror suspects from south Delhi and Ranchi on Wednesday, claiming they were linked to a wider module that was allegedly planning "anti-national activities."
One of the accused, Ashar Danish, a resident of Bokaro's Petwar, was picked up from Tabarak Lodge in Ranchi, where he had been staying for a long period.
The second, Md Aftab from Mumbai, was arrested from south Delhi, police said in a statement on Wednesday. Senior officers said Danish was already wanted in a Delhi Police case.
The arrests followed weeks of surveillance and coordinated raids across multiple states. Police said six to eight more suspects have been detained from different cities and brought to Delhi for questioning. Over the past two weeks, teams raided more than 12 locations in pursuit of what officers described as a "larger terror network" with links to banned outfits and handlers based abroad.
"We found the accused were part of a module with international links. They were working on instructions from handlers outside India and planning something big in Delhi and other cities," a senior officer said....
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