Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: April 5, 2006
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1668308,001302170000.htm
Six Harkat-ul-Jehad al Islami (HUJI) terrorists,
including the mastermind behind the Varanasi blasts, had hatched a conspiracy
to blow up the two Hanuman temples' in the city on Ramnavami, state police's
Special Task Force sources said.
A map of the city had been recovered from
the possession of terrorists, who were arrested on Wednesday, marking the
spots, which they had planned to strike, the sources said.
They said terrorists had planned to blow up
the old Hanuman temples at Aliganj and the one near Lucknow university in
the city Ramnavami day on Thursday as a large number of devotees pay obeisance
there on this day.
Sources said some Pakistani passports had
also been recovered from them.
The STF was in touch with Central intelligence
agencies and efforts were on to nab their masters in Bangladesh with the help
of the Interpol, they said.
The STF had arrested six HUJI terrorists,
including Wali ullah, who was the mastermind behind the twin blasts in Varanasi
on March 7.
They also revealed during interrogation that
three Bangladeshi terrorists who had triggered blasts in Varanasi could also
be behind the last year's terror blasts in Delhi and Shramjeevi Express train
near Jaunpur.
