Police on Friday arrested two Kashmiri youths following leads from the site of Thursday’s terror attack on parliament about ownership of the car used in the strike.

The two youths having identical names Ashiq Hussain Khan were arrested by a joint team of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police from Khwaja Gilgat in Sopore and were being flown to Delhi for interrogation, police sources in Srinagar said.


One of the youths is a computer engineering student in Bangalore who returned to Sopore five days back to celebrate Eid while the other is a local cable operator, the sources said.
Two Indian women have also been questioned by various agencies for a possible role played by them in providing topographic details of the Parliament House complex.
A map of Parliament House, with notings in English, was found from one of the bags carried by the terrorists. The sources maintained that investigations were going in the right direction and that there was possibility of a breakthrough soon.
The sources said that the members of the suicide squad had made calls to these two detained men who were staying in the hotel for quite some time.

However, it was not immediately clear whether the two have been arrested.

The sources quoting some of the injured security personnel said that the militants were speaking in Urdu and had shouted Pakistan zindabad while carrying out the attack.

The said that preliminary investigations revealed that the attack was jointly carried out by cadres of Lashker-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Bureau Report