The arrest of three alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) sympathisers by the Delhi Police Special Cell is the third major terror module busted by the Special Cell in less than six months.
Recently, in February they had arrested a 28-year-old man with alleged links to the Islamic State. A few days before that, in late January, four alleged members of the same module had been arrested in Uttarakhand.
The arrested men, including a polytechnic student, were accused of planning blasts targeting the Ardh Kumbh Mela and the trains bound for the holy city. The youths, who were described by the police as highly radicalised, were allegedly in touch with members of the Islamic State terror group in Syria.
The one who was arrested in February was accused of providing logistical support and money to the youth arrested earlier. His arrest was at a time when NIA and other agencies had carried out a pan-India swoop in the aftermath of Pathankot terror attacks. Several others were held in that round of arrests, however some of them were separate modules despite having IS as the connecting link, the police had said.
Prior to that, last December, the Cell claimed to have busted an alleged module of Al Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent. Four men — Mohammed Asif, Abdul Rahman, Zafar Masood and Syed Anzar Shah — were earlier arrested in connection with the case.
Rahman ran a madrassa in Uttar Pradesh where several students were enrolled and he was allegedly trying to radicalise them for terror activities.
However, it was also the same year that Cell failed to secure the conviction of Abdul Karim Tunda, the alleged bomb maker of Lashkar-e-Taiba when he got a clean chit in all four cases registered against him in Delhi.
