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Acting on a tip-off provided by the Intelligence Bureau, sleuths of Delhi police's Special Cell arrested Sayeed Mohammad alias Hamza alias Tallah, a resident of Lahore, and Maksood Ahmad alias Abdul Rahman, a resident of Karachi, from a parking lot near Grandlay cinema in south Delhi on Wednesday night.
Sayeed Mohammad had come to Delhi for handing over a consignment of two kgs of highly-explosive RDX, one hand grenade, two detonators and a cell phone to Maksood Ahmad, who was reported to have entered the city at least a week back, they said.
Immediately after the arrests, police raided Maksood's residence at Taimur Nagar in Okhla and recovered six kgs of explosive substance from there.
During a preliminary interrogation, Maksood revealed that he had entered India through the Kupwara border in north Kashmir and was tasked with carrying out blasts in the national capital, the sources said.
He had been provided the hideout in Delhi by a person identified as Asad, who is since absconding, they said.
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is the new name of Harkat-ul-Ansar, which was renamed after the US banned it for carrying out terrorist attacks.
The group is also alleged to be behind the kidnapping of five foreigners in Jammu and Kashmir in 1995, including two Americans.
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