2 terror suspects held in Gorakhpur

, March 27: Two suspected terrorists were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh anti-terror squad in Gorakhpur. Allegedly, the terrorists are from Pakistan and were recruited by the

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Police said that arms and ammunition were recovered from them.

Reportedly, the two men were part of a terror plot ahead of general elections. Police suspect that their target was Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. They allegedly came to Gorakhpur via Nepal.

The UP police acted on a tip-off from Delhi Police's Special Cell, who interrogated IM chief Tehseen Akhtar,23, who was arrested from Darjeeling on Wednesday.

The young IM chief is an expert bomb-maker. He was arrested from a village called Panitanki, near Nepal border.

Reportedly, he was the master-mind behind the blasts at Narendra Modi's rally in Patna in October.

Tehseen had allegedly been running the Indian Mujahideen in India since the group's co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was arrested last year, also near the India-Nepal border.

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