Lucknow: Anti-Terrorist Force (ATS) Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested three suspects related to the contents modules captured by Delhi police on Tuesday.
The man accused, Jameel of Rae Bareli, Imtiyaz from Pratapgarh and Tahir of Prayagraj (all in their 20s), had been handed over to Delhi police.
In a joint operation on Tuesday, the ATS and special cells of Police Delhi have arrested three people – MooLchand of Rae Bareli, Mohammed Amir from Lucknow, and Zeeshan Qamar of Prayagraj.
The police have also restored Ied from their ownership.
Director General of Police Additional Police, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar said that even though the basic tip about this module was continued by Delhi police about 10 days ago, the arrests were made on the basis of intelligence collected and developed by ATS.
“It was a heavy duty to track the suspects given the back-to-back VIP visit to the country.
We used our special police operations team (spot) for operations and arrest six people after scanning the oversight input for 10 days,” he said.
Kumar added that the group planned to carry out the IED series explosion in the state.
“The big congregation in big cities rises during the upcoming festival season is a possible target,” the officer said.
ADG said the Countmade pistol and explosive material had recovered from the trio.
“Because the main case is related to Delhi police, the suspects and restored property have been submitted to them,” he added.
Sources in ATS said the main task of the suspects was to conduct the main target reconnaissance and then carry weapons to the location.
ATS officials said Zeeshan Qamar, one of the suspects was arrested on Tuesday, was trained by the contents and was assigned to make reservations from various locations in Delhi and rise for planting IEDs.
He said Zeeshan provided training in handling AK47 weapons and made IED.