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Delhi police team arrives in Lucknow to trace RDX route

Two Let militants brought to the State capital from Delhi

LUCKNOW: A team of Delhi Police Special Cell was here on Sunday to trace the route of RDX and detonators recovered from two alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists arrested from outside the New Delhi railway station on Thursday night.

While Government Railway Police (GRP) was maintaining silence on the presence of Delhi Police team, police sources said police personnel opened the locker of Abrar Ahmed alias Mohammed Issa at the Charbagh railway station cloak room here.

Sources claimed that Abrar Ahmed and his accomplice Abu Anas were also brought to Lucknow.

The Delhi Police team recovered a bag kept in the locker. The bag reportedly contained clothes and some railway tickets.

The two had reportedly booked their tickets from Lucknow for New Delhi. But they were arrested outside the New Delhi railway station while boarding an auto-rickshaw.

Sources said the Delhi Police was trying to ascertain the route of the two kg of RDX and five detonators recovered from the two.

The possibility that the RDX and the detonators recovered from LeT terrorists being handed over to them in Lucknow cannot be ruled out, the sources added.

On Friday night, a joint team of Uttar Pradesh Police and Delhi Police had raided the house of Ahmed in Bahraich district. After the raid, the police had not ruled out the possibility of other members being involved with LeT operations in the State.

Abrar's father Irfan and brother Muna could not be traced by the raiding party. The police said they could have gone underground after Abrar's arrest. UNI

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