Two alleged conduits of banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including a junior assistant with the Revenue Department in Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police at Mahipalpur here. The police claim to have recovered 1.5 kg of RDX, Rs. 6 lakh in hawala money and detonators from them. A team led by Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma received a tip-off recently that Mohammad Akmal, a resident of Pakistan and LeT district commander of Pattan in the Valley, had been sending people to Delhi to collect money sent through illegal hawala channels and deliver explosives to militants. Acting on a tip-off that the two would again come to a Mahipalpur bus shelter on Sunday, the police laid a trap and arrested them after recovering the explosive consignment, two detonators and the hawala money.
They identified themselves as Gulzar Ahmad Ganai (20), a second year undergraduate student; and Mohammad Amin Hazam (29), junior assistant with the Revenue Department at Baramulla, both residents of Pattan. The accused purportedly admitted that they came into contact with Akmal, who operated under the codename Abu Tahir in October. He purportedly persuaded them to work as conduits for the outfit.
At his instance, the accused collected Rs. 5 lakh from Delhi in November. During their second visit, the two went to Mumbai where they allegedly collected the explosive and the hawala money from one Nazir at the Gateway of India.
