Terror suspects targetting Rahul Gandhi held

Three Pakistan nationals belonging to terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed were today arrested here after an encounter but police refused to confirm or deny whether Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was their target for a kidnap plan.

The arrested persons identified as Mohammad Abid alias Faate, Usuf alias Faisal and Mirza Rashid Baig had all been trained in Pakisatan, UP Director General of Police Vikram Singh told a press conference.

The three had been trained to kidnap a leading Uttar Pradesh-based politician to create terror in the country and exert pressure for getting freed 42 dreaded terrorists lodged in various jails, he said.

Asked whether anyone in the Gandhi family was their target, Singh said he would neither confirm nor deny because investigations were yet to be done.
Shailja Kant Mishra, Additional DGP, Special Task Force, which arrested the three after an encounter on Delhi-Lucknow road, also said he cannot confirm whether Rahul Gandhi, who was here during the week, was their target.

They had nefarious designs and if they had succeeded, it would have brought in disaster, he said. Mishra said they were Pakistan nationals trained in terror camps in Afghanistan and Muzaffarabad and Balakote in Pakistan. They had planned to kidnap "somebody" and nail him down so that they could negotiate for release of arrested people.

Courtesy:thehindu.com
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