A terror strike, possibly in Delhi ahead of Diwali, plotted by Let and Babbar Khalsa was foiled with police seizing over 5 kg explosives from a car outside Ambala Cantonment Railway station.
A team of Delhi police and their Haryana counterparts found the explosives in a blue Indica car parked outside the railway station, about 200 km from Delhi, last night, following probe into inputs provided by intelligence agencies 10 days ago that a consignment of explosives is headed to a north Indian metro.
Though the initial inputs were general in nature, sources said, Delhi Police was provided specific inputs, including the make of the vehicle used for carrying the explosives and that the exchange will take place in Ambala, on Wedneday evening.
The information was passed on to Haryana Police and a joint team of Delhi and Haryana Police tracked down the car to Ambala railway station. Sources said the vehicle had yesterday passed from the Lakhanpur toll barrier along Jammu-Pathankot barrier.
Sources said the car-laden with explosives, which one would have needed to assemble to carry out a blast, was abandoned by its occupants who may have become suspicious when police carried out searches after waiting for someone to turn up.
"We had inputs that an LeT module active in Jammu and Kashmir was planning to strike in Delhi. Investigations were done and found that the explosives were meant for BKI and to be used in Delhi. We received a specific input yesterday about the movement," Arun Kampani, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), told reporters in Delhi.
The recovery of the explosives came a month after a bomb blast outside High Court in Delhi.
