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NEW DELHI: The Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squads person foiled a planned chemic panic attack, arresting 3 suspects, including a Hyderabad-based doctor, who allegedly intended to poison prasad with ricin.
The crippled reportedly included Ayodhya arsenic a target, with Nov 25—when the saffron emblem is owed to beryllium hoisted atop the Ram temple—marked for an attack. According to sources, the suspects had besides planned a bid of attacks successful Delhi akin to the 26/11 Mumbai strike, describing it arsenic a “spectacular attack” of unprecedented scale. Key targets included railway stations, malls, India Gate and temples.
DNA tests confirmed Umar Un Nabi arsenic the bomber successful Old Delhi. Sources said Nabi’s module had planned aggregate vehicle-borne IED explosions followed by battle firearm firing. Three vehicles—an i20, a reddish Ford Ecosport, and a Brezza—had been procured for the operation. While the i20 exploded adjacent Red Fort, authorities issued a BOLO announcement for the different 2 vehicles.
The Ecosport, registered successful Delhi with the fig ending 0458, was recovered successful Faridabad, portion the Brezza remains untraced. The probe revealed that too Delhi, Ayodhya, railway stations, India Gate was besides connected the module’s radar.\
Security officials said they had collected ammonium nitrate and RDX, though it remains unclear whether these materials were successful the i20. The crippled had reportedly been hatched successful Turkiye successful 2022, with Nabi pursuing instructions from his Turkey-based handler, identified by the codename Ukasa. The breakthrough came aft Jaish-e-Mohammed posters appeared overnight connected Oct 19 crossed Nowgam-Bunpora successful Srinagar, informing information forces of “dire consequences.” Srinagar SSP Dr GV Sundeep Chakravarthy described the posters arsenic deliberate and dangerous, ordering a lawsuit nether the UAPA, Explosive Substances Act, and Arms Act. CCTV footage led to the recognition of 3 men, including Moulvi Irfan Ahmad of Shopian. Further probe traced integer footprints and communications to operatives successful Haryana and UP, starring to the apprehension of Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie, a Pulwama doc moving successful a Faridabad aesculapian college, and 2 others from Nowgam. The probe besides led to seizures of IED-making materials. A elder serviceman described the probe arsenic “a thorough forward-and-backward effort that mapped each nexus successful the chain,” noting that the cognition exposed a blase cross-state “white-collar” module involving medics, a moulvi, and radicalized operatives. For Dr Chakravarthy, a 2014-batch IPS officer, the lawsuit stands retired arsenic 1 of his astir intricate investigations, peeling backmost layers of radicalization and revealing an improbable confederation of professionals and militants.
