Delhi on alert after terrorists held

TERROR SUSPECTS HELD: The police have recovered three detonators and two kg RDX from the suspects.

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New Delhi: The police claim to have foiled a major terror plot after the arrest of three suspected terrorists at Dilli Haat, a popular cultural complex in south Delhi on Thursday evening.

The police say the suspects are members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and one of them - Abu Kasim - is a Pakistani national.

The other two - Shafaqat and Kabir - are residents of Doda, Kashmir and all the three are between the ages of 23-24 years.

Says Joint Commissioner Special Cell, Karnal Singh, “We got information about the module from intelligence. We had this information for the last one month. One ACP and his team worked on this information for a month."

Karnal explained that the team took position in Dilli Haat after they came to know that the suspected terrorists were to meet there on Thursday.

"The special cell is interrogating them. They have been taken for interrogation. We have limited information about the module in Delhi. We are working to get more information on this module and in the meantime have intensified security across the Capital,” Karnal added.

The police have recovered three detonators, three timers, two hand grenades, two kilograms of RDX and a small communication device from the suspects.

Intelligence agencies say that the recovery of a small communication device is the most significant thing because as this is a new trend with which small sleeper cells can actually communicate across the borders.

The police are yet to find out where the suspected terrorists planned to strike.

(With inputs from Sumon Chakraborti and Urvashi Gulia in New Delhi)