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A Special Cell of the Delhi Police connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) arrested 8 persons, who are allegedly portion of a module linked to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Mumbai’s transgression underworld. The module convened a radical of terrorists to onslaught strategical locations successful antithetic parts of the country, including Delhi and Mumbai, the constabulary said.
“Major attacks person been averted with the arrests of these individuals. We person collected evidence, including immoderate pictures, videos, and coordinates of circumstantial authorities and non-government buildings and information establishments astatine which these attacks were being planned,” Anil Shukla, Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, said.
The arrested individuals were allegedly connected to Munna Jhingada, an subordinate of Dawood Ibrahim who was sent to Bangkok successful 2000 to termination Chhota Rajan, and incarcerated there, and Shahzad Bhatti, a Pakistan-based gangster. While Jhingada was successful jailhouse for 17 years successful Bangkok earlier helium was extradited backmost to Pakistan, Bhatti has been operating from Pakistan for the past 5 years, the constabulary said.
The module came to airy when, earlier this month, 2 individuals, Vijay, and Nitish Paswan, were arrested by the Special Cell from Pune, and Sahibganj successful Jharkhand, respectively. Interrogations revealed their links to Bhatti’s web operating from Pakistan and Dubai, the constabulary said.
“Vijay was tasked with undertaking transgression activities successful assorted parts of the country, and executing attacks successful Delhi NCR (National Capital Region),” Mr. Shukla said.
Further interrogation and method surveillance led to the apprehension connected May 27 from Mumbai of 2 much individuals, Taoqeer Rizwan and Arbaz Khan, who were linked to ISI handlers Yahwar Khan, and Jhingada. They were recruited by Huzaifa, who is presently absconding and was functioning connected behalf of Khan, Jhingada, and Bhatti.
“Scrutinising their societal media accounts, we recovered that they had been successful interaction with the handlers via Instagram and WhatsApp groups, and had already formed a squad for carrying retired large attacks successful Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab, and Chandigarh,” the elder authoritative said.
The interrogation of Rizwan and Arbaz Khan revealed that different radical from Punjab was to get successful Delhi to transportation retired attacks astatine their behest.
On Saturday, astatine 1 a.m., the constabulary intercepted Manjeet Singh, Gagandeep Singh, and Harvinder Singh, each from Punjab, astatine the Mehrauli-Badarpur roadworthy successful Delhi. “From them, we recovered 4 manus grenades, 2 Glock pistols, and 25 unrecorded cartridges. We besides received different incriminating evidence, laying down the details of locations astatine which they were readying to attack,” Mr. Shukla said.
Interrogating them, the constabulary recovered that these individuals were connected to a 66-year-old Nepali citizen, Ang Kami Lama, who had travel into interaction with Jhingada successful the Bangkok jail. “He had been serving clip successful situation for the amerciable merchantability and proscription of drugs from 2001 to 2018,” the authoritative said.
Jhingada is suspected to beryllium presently based successful Pakistan, and had allegedly sent Lama to Delhi to supply logistics and negociate finances for the attacks, the constabulary said. “Preliminary probe reveals the weapons were dropped by drones,” the constabulary added.
Investigation into the relation of different Nepali citizens and definite Nepali-origin nodes linked to the module is underway.
