By U Sudhakar Reddy
Hyderabad Feb. 22: The Lashkar-e-Tayyaba has tasked two groups of terrorists to attack the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad and Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant in Karwar, Karnataka. According to intelligence inputs and information gathered by investigating agencies following the arrest of six LeT terrorists in Lucknow on February 11, the Lashkar operatives, with arms sourced from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom, entered the country through Nepal. They stopped over at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
A person codenamed Zaman Bhai bought them three train tickets to Bangalore and two to Hyderabad. The trail appears to have run cold at this point, but a senior city police official said two terrorists, Riyaz and Sultan, are now in Karnataka. Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police have been asked to check trains from Gorakhpur. A railway police official said, “There are two trains from Gorakhpur. One halts at Hyderabad and the other continues to Bangalore. We are keeping tabs on the passengers on these trains.” The police said the ultras could have altered their plans following the arrest of Hyderabad terror suspect Mohammed Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse in Karnataka. Police said the terrorists had earlier planned to attack targets in Delhi and Lucknow but shifted focus to Hyderabad and Karnataka. An intelligence alert regarding possible terror strikes has been sent to all police and security agencies in the city, Cyberabad, the Central Industrial Security Force and all top cops in the state.
Security at the Nuclear Fuel Complex has been beefed up and the police is on high alert in the city in view of possible terror strikes. Central Industrial Security Force, which guards the Nuclear Fuel Complex, has put the facility’s security on maximum level. Vehicles carrying nuclear fuel to Kaiga from NFC have also been given additional security.
“There is a definite threat to the nuclear installation,” a police official said on condition of anonymity. “We are trying to trace two groups comprising two to three terrorists each who are planning to carry out attacks in Karnataka and Hyderabad.” M. Mattaiah, SHO of the Kushaiguda police station, under whose limits the NFC is said, “CISF is taking care of all internal security and is controlling access to the complex. Police has intensified patrolling on the periphery of the facility and a picket has also been set up. We are also checking people moving about near the NFC.”
Hyderabad has been on the terror radar since May 18, 2007, when a blast was set off at Mecca Masjid, and the twin explosions at Lumbini Park and the Gokul Chat eatery on August 25, 2007. Meanwhile, Nasir has reportedly revealed during narcoanalysis tests conducted by the Bangalore police that eight fidayeen trained in Pakistan by the LeT have sneaked into the country. He said they were probably in Uttar Pradesh, North Karnataka and Hyderabad.
Nasir confessed that he had planned to attack the office of the director-general of police in Hyderabad.
A person codenamed Zaman Bhai bought them three train tickets to Bangalore and two to Hyderabad. The trail appears to have run cold at this point, but a senior city police official said two terrorists, Riyaz and Sultan, are now in Karnataka. Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police have been asked to check trains from Gorakhpur. A railway police official said, “There are two trains from Gorakhpur. One halts at Hyderabad and the other continues to Bangalore. We are keeping tabs on the passengers on these trains.” The police said the ultras could have altered their plans following the arrest of Hyderabad terror suspect Mohammed Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse in Karnataka. Police said the terrorists had earlier planned to attack targets in Delhi and Lucknow but shifted focus to Hyderabad and Karnataka. An intelligence alert regarding possible terror strikes has been sent to all police and security agencies in the city, Cyberabad, the Central Industrial Security Force and all top cops in the state.
Security at the Nuclear Fuel Complex has been beefed up and the police is on high alert in the city in view of possible terror strikes. Central Industrial Security Force, which guards the Nuclear Fuel Complex, has put the facility’s security on maximum level. Vehicles carrying nuclear fuel to Kaiga from NFC have also been given additional security.
“There is a definite threat to the nuclear installation,” a police official said on condition of anonymity. “We are trying to trace two groups comprising two to three terrorists each who are planning to carry out attacks in Karnataka and Hyderabad.” M. Mattaiah, SHO of the Kushaiguda police station, under whose limits the NFC is said, “CISF is taking care of all internal security and is controlling access to the complex. Police has intensified patrolling on the periphery of the facility and a picket has also been set up. We are also checking people moving about near the NFC.”
Hyderabad has been on the terror radar since May 18, 2007, when a blast was set off at Mecca Masjid, and the twin explosions at Lumbini Park and the Gokul Chat eatery on August 25, 2007. Meanwhile, Nasir has reportedly revealed during narcoanalysis tests conducted by the Bangalore police that eight fidayeen trained in Pakistan by the LeT have sneaked into the country. He said they were probably in Uttar Pradesh, North Karnataka and Hyderabad.
Nasir confessed that he had planned to attack the office of the director-general of police in Hyderabad.
(Published in Deccan Chronicle on Feb 23 2008)
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