The Delhi Police have been tipped off that the Lashkar-e-Taiba is planning to carry out suicide bombings in Delhi and some other cities of the country.
The news on Saturday led to some panic in the NCR region, with many people cancelling their weekend plans and staying home. A few offices in Gurgaon shut early. The police said the targets included some “high-profile personalities” in the city. The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has registered an FIR at their Lodhi Colony office.
“The inputs were received by a special cell officer on Tuesday evening. We are not taking the information lightly as the policeman has claimed that it came from one of his credible sources,” a senior Delhi Police officer said on Saturday.
The police said the LeT would target the crowded places through suicide bombings and grenade attacks.
Some other cities are also on its radar, the police said, adding the plan was to carry out attacks beyond Jammu & Kashmir. “The LeT handlers have already infiltrated some terrorists into India through J&K and other international borders,” the officer said.
While much of the information received by the police is imprecise, they have received specific inputs on two suspected LeT operatives, Dujana and Ukasha, leading the alleged operation. A senior investigator said the two suspects could be Abu Dujana, a senior LeT leader, and his main aide Abu Ukasha. Their names had emerged during the interrogation of two LeT operatives arrested in Jammu last month.
The police said the duo was active in southern parts of Kashmir for some time. Police sources said Dujana and Ukasha were in touch with some LeT militants to carry out the attacks.
The special cell has alerted its sources across India, especially in J&K, to launch a technical surveillance of Dujana, Ukasha and other LeT militants who are learnt to be using aliases like Noman, zaid and Khursheed.
