After the arrest of two suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, new revelations are emerging about the terrorist module in the state. Maps of many major places have been captured from the terrorists by the UP ATS. ATS sources told The Daily Guardian that the target of Al Qaeda terrorists was the grand Ram temple being built in Ayodhya.
Apart from this, the religious places of Mathura and Kashi were also on target of these terrorists. Sources have said that maps of religious places of Mathura, Kashi and Ayodhya have been recovered from the Al Qaeda terrorists caught in Lucknow. According to ATS sources, the maps of recce around Ram temple of Ayodhya have been found from the terrorists. The maps of religious places of Kashi and Mathura have also been received by the ATS from the terrorists.
The maps are marked with different points. UP ATS has also recovered the details of an area of Gorakhpur from the terrorists. Along with this, the details of public and religious places of many big cities of the state have also been received from both the arrested terrorists. After busting the Al Qaeda module, the ATS has detained more than a dozen suspects in the last 24 hours, whose interrogation is currently underway.
Significantly, in the capital Lucknow, the UP ATS has foiled a major terrorist conspiracy by exposing the Al Qaeda module. On the previous day, UP ATS arrested two terrorists Minhaj Ahmed and Naseeruddin in Lucknow.
ADG (Law and Order), Uttar Pradesh, Prashant Kumar told reporters on Sunday, “UP ATS has uncovered a big terror module. The team has arrested two terrorists linked with Al Qaeda›s Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.”
The suspects were plotting terror attacks across Uttar Pradesh ahead of 15 August (Independence Day), said ADG Kumar. He added that agencies have reason to believe that the suspects were planning to carry out attacks, including «human bomb» attacks in crowded places.