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Pak woman spy had Modi on terror radar

Pak woman spy had Modi on terror radar

Author: Neeraj Chauhan
Publication: The Times of India
Date: December 14, 2011
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Pak-woman-spy-had-Modi-on-%20%20terror-radar/articleshow/11100144.cms

The Pakistani woman spy and her companion nabbed on Monday were no small operatives. They were pushed into India from ISI's launch pads in Nepal to attack Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and other terror targets in the state.

Both jihadis, Soofia Kanwal and her accomplice Imran, were trained to trigger blasts and were being remote-controlled by their masters in Pakistan. These startling facts came to the fore during their interrogation by Special Cell sleuths.

Soofia and Imran, both from Karachi, had also been assigned to recce Akshardham Temple in Ahmedabad and the Cantonment areas in Agra and Delhi, said a police officer.

"They have not revealed details of their plan to kill Modi. We are investigating whether Lashkar, Indian Mujahideen or Jaish were providing them logistics," said a police officer. Delhi Police has alerted Gujarat Police about the threat to Modi.

Police are also questioning spies about the training programmes they underwent in Pakistan. Both were well-versed in techniques used by different terror organisations.

Sleuths have also stumbled upon fresh evidence on how Indian Mujahideen terrorists were keeping in touch. IM's India chief Siddi Bappa alias Shahrukh had instructed all module members to use different SIM cards for calling each other and he himself carried several phones with different connections, said a sleuth.

In fact, Special Cell has reportedly recovered 30 SIM cards of different operators and different states from those arrested. "Indian Mujahideen members had procured all SIM cards on the basis of fake documents," he said.

"They would keep changing numbers every two weeks to evade police. Shahrukh had reportedly given different numbers to each member. He would not talk to Ajmal on Irshad's number or to Qateel on Farooq's number. Members also did not know about the different numbers of different modules," said a senior police officer.

Police said the recovered SIM cards would help them track down their visits to different states.

The Special Cell has sent all arms, ammunition and explosives recovered from the terror factory at Meer Vihar for forensic tests. Officials said the explosives included RDX and nitrate-based chemicals. Police also suspect that Shahrukh may have created more bases like Meer Vihar for hiding explosives. Cops have also found some bank accounts which were being used by arrested terrorists, which they suspect were source of transfers of money used for operations.


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