Two LeT men nabbed in Ahmedabad, documents, CDs recovered

Ahmedabad, Sept 18 (UNI) With the arrest of two suspected LeT militants, Gujarat Crime Branch police today claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy of the outfit to spread its tentacles across various states.

Several jehadi documents and CDs on Gujarat riots have been seized from them, police said in a statement. Acting on a tip-off, police nabbed the two when they had been to a guesthouse in Kalupur area. While one of them Iliyas Memon is from Shah Alam area in the old city, other Khalid is said to be from Jammu and Kashmir.

They also said there could be a possible link between Mumbai blasts, arms recovery in Aurangabad, Ahmedabad station blast and the arrests in Delhi.

They said two agents--Imran and Wasir Kashmiri had been inciting youths from Gujarat to go for training in J and K.

Police claimed that 20 such youths are already back in Gujarat after their training and can strike any moment upon LeT orders.

The agents had also taken Illiyas under their wings and sent him for training in January this year. The two had met him at the Tadkeswar madrassa and were together for eight years. In fact, Imran had taken Illiyas from Vadodara to Kolkata with an intention to cross over to Bangladesh, but they could not. During their stay in Kolkata, they were in touch with their Pakistani and Bangladeshi counterparts.

They had been circulating CDs on Gujarat riots and those containing jehadi speeches among Muslim youths and also had been arranging passports to send them to Bangladesh, police said.

Now LeT network could have spread to Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Godhra, Surat, Bhopal, Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Patna and other J And K cities, the statement said.

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