Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 17: Delhi Police is hunting for four other terror suspects, besides the two who were arrested last week from the Jahangirpuri area, sources said on Tuesday.
According to the sources, terror suspects received weapons from Pakistan through the drop-dead method and were in touch with their handlers on the other side of the border through a social media app.
Two terrorists were arrested from the Jahangirpuri area in Delhi last week, according to the police, were tasked to carry out targeted attacks in various states.
Police sources later claimed that three rightwing leaders of Punjab and Delhi were on their hit list and that they had even set a date and time to carry out the task. The killings were supposed to be carried out on January 27 and January 31, Delhi police sources claimed.
Delhi police believe the possible presence of other 4 suspects in India presently. Search operations are going on.
“Their handlers sitting at the border sent instructions on the Signal app, after which they shared the location of the bag full of weapons through Google Maps. About 8 people are involved in this module of terrorists out of which 4 can still be present in India only. 2 terrorists were used to provide weapons and 2 were used to send the Google location of the weapons to their bosses by keeping the weapons at a particular location,” sources said.
According to sources, the weapons recovered from the terrorists were found at an unknown site in Uttarakhand which is now being verified.
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The Delhi Police had earlier said it arrested two suspects and recovered two hand grenades from their house in the Bhalswa Dairy area of Jahangirpuri. The suspects were identified as Jagjit Singh (29) and Naushad (56). They were produced before the Patiala House Court on Friday and sent to police remand for 14 days.
Delhi Police earlier said it has information that Jagjit Singh has links to Khalistani terrorist Arshdeep Dalla. He is also a member of the notorious Bambiha gang.
Naushad is also associated with Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA), a terror group that is based in Pakistan and primarily operates in Jammu and Kashmir. He has been a life convict in two counts of murder and has also served a 10-year sentence in connection with a case under the Explosive Act.
