New Delhi: In a major breakthrough, the police arrested a key conspirator of a terror module that was busted in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir last month. The accused, Riyaz Ahmed, was nabbed from the New Delhi Railway Station on Tuesday morning, following a tip-off from the J&K Police.


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According to the police, Ahmed was involved in a conspiracy to receive arms and ammunition from across the Line of Control (LOC) by the handlers of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a banned terrorist outfit. He was wanted in connection with a case registered at Karnah police station in Kupwara, where five other members of the terror module were arrested and five AK rifles, five magazines and 16 rounds were seized.


The police said that the arms and ammunition were supplied by two LeT operatives based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK), identified as Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh and Qazi Mohammad Khushal. They were using the cover of cross-border trade to smuggle the weapons into India.


Acting on specific information from the J&K Police, a team of the New Delhi Railway Station police station, led by Inspector Vishwanath Paswan, was deployed at the station to intercept Ahmed, who was expected to arrive in the wee hours of Tuesday. The team spotted Ahmed in the crowd and caught him when he was trying to escape from exit gate number one.


During interrogation, Ahmed revealed that he and his friend Altaf, both retired from the Indian Army, had boarded the Mahakaushal Express from Jabalpur and reached Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station on Monday afternoon. From there, they took an auto and reached the New Delhi Railway Station. Ahmed was planning to go to another hideout from there.


The police recovered a mobile phone and a SIM card from Ahmed’s possession. He was arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Arms Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The police informed the J&K Police about his arrest and handed him over to them for further investigation.


The police said that the terror module was planning to carry out attacks in different parts of the country and that the probe is on to unearth the whole conspiracy.