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The Delhi police hopes to achieve a major breakthrough during the interrogation of three hardcore Kashmiri terrorists who were arrested from the Nizamuddin Railway Station on Thursday.
"Merhrajuddin alias Hilal, Sajjad Sheikh and Feroz belong to Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit and they had come to Delhi with some diabolical plans. We are interrogating the three to find out what these plans were," Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner (Special Branch), told rediff.com on Friday.
Two of their accomplices, Abu Bilal and Abu Zabi-ullah, were killed in an encounter in the park adjacent to the Humayun Tomb on Thursday night. They had opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest them.
Abu Bilal was one of the key accused in the December 2000 Red Fort shootout case. The bodies of the slain terrorists were sent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for post-mortem.
"We have seized 5 kilograms of RDX, one AK-47, two pistols, four detonators and plastic yellow explosives," Chand said.
The three arrested militants had come back to Delhi from Mumbai by Punjab Mail. The Delhi police is now trying to find out if they had any role in the Gujarat riots.
Last week a bomb was thrown at a bus in Godhra. Several people were injured in the attack.
"As of now we have no information where all they have been. We are interrogating them. The arrested militants would be produced before the court today," he said.
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