India arrests 6 to break 'terrorist group'
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December 1, 2011, Thursday
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INDIAN authorities said yesterday they have broken up a terror cell responsible for a series of bombings, including a deadly blast at a southern cafe popular with foreigners.
The arrest of the six men, one a Pakistani, is the first reported breakthrough by Indian authorities trying to solve a string of recent terror attacks.
New Delhi police said the accused were part of a cell of the shadowy domestic terror group known as the Indian Mujahideen, and they were found with two rifles, a pistol, nearly 5 kilograms of explosives, detonators and fake Indian currency notes.
The cell was responsible for last year's blast at a cafe in Pune that killed 17 people, a bombing at a Bangalore cricket stadium and the shooting and bombing attack outside a New Delhi mosque that injured two foreigners.
The cell collapsed in a series of police raids across India last week, after the arrest of one member led authorities to the others, police said.
All those arrested were "subjected to intensive interrogation," they said.
The government has been criticized strongly for failing to stop terror attacks and arrest the masterminds behind the September 7 blast outside Delhi's High Court, which killed 13, and the July 13 triple bombing in Mumbai that killed 26.
Those arrested included Mohamed Adil, whom police identified as a Pakistani sent to India on the instructions of Riaz and Iqbal Bhatkal, who are leaders in the Indian Mujahideen the Indian government says are living in Pakistan.
Indian police believed they had eliminated the group after a series of raids in 2008, but the recent attacks made it clear the Indian Mujahideen had re-emerged, police said.
The arrest of the six men, one a Pakistani, is the first reported breakthrough by Indian authorities trying to solve a string of recent terror attacks.
New Delhi police said the accused were part of a cell of the shadowy domestic terror group known as the Indian Mujahideen, and they were found with two rifles, a pistol, nearly 5 kilograms of explosives, detonators and fake Indian currency notes.
The cell was responsible for last year's blast at a cafe in Pune that killed 17 people, a bombing at a Bangalore cricket stadium and the shooting and bombing attack outside a New Delhi mosque that injured two foreigners.
The cell collapsed in a series of police raids across India last week, after the arrest of one member led authorities to the others, police said.
All those arrested were "subjected to intensive interrogation," they said.
The government has been criticized strongly for failing to stop terror attacks and arrest the masterminds behind the September 7 blast outside Delhi's High Court, which killed 13, and the July 13 triple bombing in Mumbai that killed 26.
Those arrested included Mohamed Adil, whom police identified as a Pakistani sent to India on the instructions of Riaz and Iqbal Bhatkal, who are leaders in the Indian Mujahideen the Indian government says are living in Pakistan.
Indian police believed they had eliminated the group after a series of raids in 2008, but the recent attacks made it clear the Indian Mujahideen had re-emerged, police said.
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