Delhi Police arrests 2 Babbar Khalsa terrorists

Two suspected terrorists of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) were arrested by the Delhi police on Friday.  A senior police official said a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell apprehended the duo.

The arrested have been identified as Sarvpreet and Jaswinder. One of them was arrested from Punjab, the other from north-west Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh.

Investigators claimed that three politicians and religious leaders in Delhi were on the terrorists’ target.

In October, Delhi Police had claimed to have foiled a terror strike, possibly in Delhi, ahead of Diwali after seizing over 5 kg explosives from a car outside Ambala Cant railway station.

Investigators had then pointed to the possibility of LeT and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) joining hands to plot the attack.

A team of Delhi Police and their Haryana counterparts found the explosives in a car parked outside the railway station, about 200 km from Delhi, on 12 October. Following a probe into inputs provided by intelligence agencies, that a consignment of explosives is headed to a north Indian metro.

The duo arrested will be produced at Tees Hazari Court later today.

With inputs from PTI

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