Suspected LeT terrorist arrested in New Delhi

New Delhi, Aug 25 (PTI) A suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) terrorist was arrested from India's national capital
Tuesday and explosives recovered from him, police said.

The man who alighted from a train at the New Delhi
Railway Station was caught by Delhi Police's Special Cell at
around 12:40 pm IST, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special
Cell) Alok Kumar told PTI.

He was carrying an identity card bearing the name
Salim and also a Pakistani passport bearing the name Yusuf,
Kumar said, adding detonators and explosive chemicals were
recovered from him.

Asked if the recovered chemical weighing around two
kilogram was RDX, he said, "it looks like."

He said they were trying to ascertain his identity as
well as his mission in the national capital.

He is the second terrorist to be arrested by Delhi
Police this month. On August 6, the Special Cell had arrested
two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists from Daryaganj area
in central Delhi.

Hizb militants Javed Ahmed Tantray and Ashiq Ali Bhatt
had met the outfit chief Syed Salahuddin a few months back in
terrorist camps in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir.

Police claimed that Salahuddin had asked them to
strike terror in the country ahead of the Independence Day.

The arrested men received their arms and religious
training in terror training camps in PoK and had met
Salahuddin several times.

Joint Commissioner (Special Cell) P N Aggarwal said
four detonators and two timers were recovered from the
27-year-old suspected terrorist.

"Some chemical type materials were also recovered from
him," Aggarwal told reporters.

Asked from where the terrorist came, he said that he
could say anything only after interrogation of the suspect.

"From where did he come, whether he came in a train
and all other details will be known only after interrogation,"
he said. PTI SJY