New Delhi: The Delhi Police is studying security camera footage from a guest house near the famous Jama Masjid mosque to identify who left an AK-56 assault rifle, two magazines with 30 cartridges each, and a hand grenade in a room on its third floor.
The ammunition was found in a police raid on the guest house on Thursday night.
It was allegedly intended for a man who was arrested while on his way from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi on March 20. The police say the man, Liyakat Shah, is a terrorist from the Hizbul Mujahideen group who moved from Kashmir to Pakistan in 1997 and was trained there.
The police say he was asked by a senior commander of the Hizbul to execute a terror attack in Delhi. The Hizbul allegedly organised a Pakistani passport for Shah who entered India via Nepal.
The police say that on March 19, it received an intelligence alert that a terror attack was being planned in Delhi, and it managed to track down Shah in Uttar Pradesh as he headed to the capital on a bus. He told them about the ammunition that was waiting for him in a Delhi guest house.
The employees at that small hotel have reportedly told the police that a man who posed as a tourist checked into the room where the bag was found around 4 pm on March 20. Just four hours later, he left the room and did not return, though he had paid for a full day's stay.
The ammunition was found in a police raid on the guest house on Thursday night.
It was allegedly intended for a man who was arrested while on his way from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi on March 20. The police say the man, Liyakat Shah, is a terrorist from the Hizbul Mujahideen group who moved from Kashmir to Pakistan in 1997 and was trained there.
The police say that on March 19, it received an intelligence alert that a terror attack was being planned in Delhi, and it managed to track down Shah in Uttar Pradesh as he headed to the capital on a bus. He told them about the ammunition that was waiting for him in a Delhi guest house.
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