Indian Mujahideen operative Tehseen Akhtar was arrested on Tuesday.
According to sources in the Delhi police, alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorist Tehseen Akhtar told them during interrogation that two highly trained fidayeens had gone to Uttar Pradesh. It is however not yet clear whether they plan to carry out an attack.
Twenty-three-year-old Tehseen was arrested on Tuesday from the Bengal-Nepal border and was allegedly heading the Indian Mujahideen operations in the country post former chief Yasin Bhatkal's arrest last year.
Though at this stage there is no way to corroborate his claims, intelligence agencies claim they are grilling him to gather more details on this latest information.
Delhi police's special cell had arrested Tehseen Akhtar and Zia ur Rehman, two top operatives of Indian Mujahideen over the past few days, and also several key members of the alleged Rajasthan module of the terror organization.
Around 50 kg of explosives and more than 400 detonators were recovered from the members of the new module, raising doubts about whether there was an attack being planned around the general elections, or on any eminent political personality.
So far, investigators claim Tehseen had recceed Agra, Jaipur and Gopalgarh but it's not yet clear whether he was preparing for an immediate target.
Last October, Tehseen Akhtar had tied up with militant members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to execute the serial blasts at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, venue of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally on the same day. Seven people died in those blasts.