New Delhi: Delhi Police yesterday claimed to have thwarted a major terror attack here during the upcoming festive season with the arrest of three suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives. A huge cache of explosives has also been recovered.
“Two of the IM operatives Asad Khan, 33, and Imran Khan, 31, were arrested from south Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur on Sep 26, the day they came to Delhi from Rurki, a town located in Punjab province of Pakistan. The third IM operative Sayed Firoz alias Hamza, 38, was arrested on Oct 1 from Nizamuddin Railway Station,” said Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Around five kg of improvised explosive devices, 10 detonators and some incriminating materials were recovered from them, he said. Neeraj Kumar claimed that the trio was also involved in the Aug 1 Pune serial blasts. AFP
Marching poor
end their protest
NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of poor fighting for land reform ended their protest march to New Delhi yesterday after signing an agreement with the central government, a campaign spokesman said.
The protesters - mostly low-caste labourers, small-scale farmers and marginalised tribal people - gathered from across India eight days ago in the town of Gwalior, intending to march 350km to the capital.
Aneesh Thillenkery, spokesman for the main organising activist group Ekta Parishad (Unity Forum), said the group had stopped the march “because the government has signed an agreement with us”. According to a copy of the document, the central government has pledged to draft a national land reforms policy and push state governments, which control land distribution, to help marginalised communities.
AFP
