New Delhi: Security around 10 scientists working in sensitive areas has been tightened in the wake of threats from Pakistan-based terror groups like Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT).
The scientists, who have not been identified, are working in crucial areas of nuclear, defence and space fields.
The names of these scientists was mentioned by Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was deported from Muscat, during interrogation and which were further corroborated by T Nazir, LeT's pointsman in South India.
While Nawaz (33) was deported and brought back by security agencies from Muscat, Nazir was arrested along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Northeast recently. Both of them had played a key role in Bangalore blasts.
Based on the information from the interrogation of US terror suspect David C Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, whose roles are being probed by the security agencies, security around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and some Bollywood studios in Mumbai have been already tightened.
The measures are taken up in the wake of inputs that 49-year-old Headley, who has been under arrest in the US since October three, had travelled to Chembur and Trombay many a times and filmed the exits and entrances of the BARC besides entry of employees, they said.
Headley is also alleged to be present in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks to guide the 10 Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists to carry out strikes in Mumbai during the 26/11 attacks.
The scientists, who have not been identified, are working in crucial areas of nuclear, defence and space fields.
The names of these scientists was mentioned by Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was deported from Muscat, during interrogation and which were further corroborated by T Nazir, LeT's pointsman in South India.
While Nawaz (33) was deported and brought back by security agencies from Muscat, Nazir was arrested along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Northeast recently. Both of them had played a key role in Bangalore blasts.
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Based on the information from the interrogation of US terror suspect David C Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, whose roles are being probed by the security agencies, security around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and some Bollywood studios in Mumbai have been already tightened.
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The measures are taken up in the wake of inputs that 49-year-old Headley, who has been under arrest in the US since October three, had travelled to Chembur and Trombay many a times and filmed the exits and entrances of the BARC besides entry of employees, they said.
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Headley is also alleged to be present in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks to guide the 10 Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists to carry out strikes in Mumbai during the 26/11 attacks.
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