Delhi Police Arrest Suspected LeT Commander in Ghazipur

Delhi Police arrested Shabbir Ahmad Lone, a suspected commander of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, in the Ghazipur area on March 30 following a two-month intelligence operation near the India-Bangladesh border.

Officials with the Delhi Police Special Cell described Lone, a resident of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, as a key handler for a recently dismantled terror module linked to the group. The arrest came after authorities tracked his movements from a hideout near Dhaka in Bangladesh, where he allegedly coordinated recruitment and operations targeting India. Investigators recovered multiple currencies, including those from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, and India, from Lone during the operation.

The module under Lone's direction focused on radicalizing illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India and equipping them for potential attacks. On February 23, police had arrested eight suspects connected to the network in Delhi and other areas. Those individuals, provided with fake identity documents such as Aadhaar cards through intermediaries, were indoctrinated into Lashkar-e-Taiba ideology and supplied with weapons. The group pasted anti-national posters at multiple...