Suspected Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had plans to attack a Delhi-Bodh Gaya special train and the Shia mosque at Lucknow.
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Delhi-Bodh Gaya train, which generally ferries foreign tourists, was the next target of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi), interrogation of arrested “Simi militants” has revealed.
“Interrogation of Simi’s Chhattisgarh chief Umer Siddiqui and close aides, arrested here recently, has revealed that the banned outfit had planned to attack the Delhi-Bodh Gaya train, in which generally tourists from Sri Lanka, Japan and other Buddhist-dominated countries travel,” additional director-general of police (intelligence) Mukesh Gupta told reporters here Wednesday.
Mr Gupta added, “The militants have also revealed their plan to target heritage sites, like the Shia mosque of Lucknow and Buddhist site at Siripur in Chhattisgarh.”
Siddiqui, said to be the mastermind of the July 7 blasts at the Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, is one of the 13 alleged SIMI operatives who have been arrested over the last two weeks in Raipur.
The police claimed to have seized video clippings and documents from the arrested alleged Simi functionaries which are anti-India in nature. The seized materials, which also contained hate speeches against India, resembled propaganda being used by Pakistan-based extremist organisations against India.
“Simi militants can be equated with terrorists of the Laskhar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Indian Mujahideen considering the ruthless manner in which they function,” Mr Gupta said. Mr Gupta said the arrested “Simi militants” had planned to flee abroad to operate from bases there after building networks in India. “We have seized visa application forms for Pakistan from them,” he added.
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Delhi-Bodh Gaya train, which generally ferries foreign tourists, was the next target of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi), interrogation of arrested “Simi militants” has revealed.
“Interrogation of Simi’s Chhattisgarh chief Umer Siddiqui and close aides, arrested here recently, has revealed that the banned outfit had planned to attack the Delhi-Bodh Gaya train, in which generally tourists from Sri Lanka, Japan and other Buddhist-dominated countries travel,” additional director-general of police (intelligence) Mukesh Gupta told reporters here Wednesday.
Mr Gupta added, “The militants have also revealed their plan to target heritage sites, like the Shia mosque of Lucknow and Buddhist site at Siripur in Chhattisgarh.”
Siddiqui, said to be the mastermind of the July 7 blasts at the Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, is one of the 13 alleged SIMI operatives who have been arrested over the last two weeks in Raipur.
The police claimed to have seized video clippings and documents from the arrested alleged Simi functionaries which are anti-India in nature. The seized materials, which also contained hate speeches against India, resembled propaganda being used by Pakistan-based extremist organisations against India.
“Simi militants can be equated with terrorists of the Laskhar-e-Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Indian Mujahideen considering the ruthless manner in which they function,” Mr Gupta said. Mr Gupta said the arrested “Simi militants” had planned to flee abroad to operate from bases there after building networks in India. “We have seized visa application forms for Pakistan from them,” he added.
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