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The Delhi Police Special Cell has uncovered Pakistani links to a terror module and arrested a total of five people on Thursday, confirmed Pramod Singh Kushwaha, Additional CP of the Special Cell. He said that eleven people were picked up, of whom five have been arrested. Investigation of the rest is still going on.
Among the people who have been arrested, one is from Jharkhand, two from Delhi, who were basically residents of Mumbai, one is from Telangana, and one is from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh. At a press conference held in Delhi today, Kushwaha said, "Sulphur powder, Sulphuric acid, nitric acid, sodium bicarbonate, pH weighing checker, ball bearings and equipment which can be used for making an IED, wires, motherboards, laptops and mobile phones, plus weapons and cartridges have been found from them." According to Kushwaha, the Pakistani handler tasked with them was to adopt a Khilafat model. Their plan was two-fold. First, they had to form a Khilafat-style group. They have their own team, which is called Lashkar, and after that, they had to do Jihad, Ghazwa-e-Hind type, on the basis of their distorted concept of understanding of Islam. Plus, some targeted killings were to be tasked to them. "They had to acquire a place and prepare a team of many people. The leader of the team had an ID Ghazwa Leader, and he kept his code name as CEO. The central character in this was Ashhar Danish, a resident of Ranchi," Kushwaha said. Regarding the identities of the accused, all five arrested individuals are young boys between 20 and 26 years of age. Kushwaha said that Danish is from Jharkhand; major recovery has been made from him. He was in touch with the handler of Pakistan, and he had connected the whole group. He had this Ghazwa leader ID, and he was called the CEO." "The other character with him was Aftab Ansari. He lives near Mumbai and is a resident of the Thane district. His task was targeted killing. For which he had acquired weapons from somewhere, and when he was about to return from Delhi after acquiring weapons, he and his associate, Sufiyan Abubakar, were arrested," he added. One of their associates, Kamran Qureshi, was arrested in Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, and a fifth man, Huzaifa, was arrested in Nizamabad, Telangana. "This was a homegrown operation. So, acquiring weapons, including making IEDs, even cartridges, they were told to prepare on their own. Some incriminating drawings have also been found from them...," Kushwaha added. (ANI)
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