Posted on 03/05/2005 7:58:00 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Three Lashkar ultras shot dead in Delhi
New Delhi, March 6. (PTI): Foiling an attempt by Lashkar-e- Toiba militants to attack Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, police shot dead three members of the outfit, including two Pakistani nationals, in an encounter here tonight.
Shahnawaz and Bilawal, both Pakistani nationals, and Shams alias Prevez hailing from Patna, were killed in a 50-minute-long encounter in Suraj Vihar in Uttam Nagar of south-west Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ashok Chand told PTI.
Three AK-56 rifles and a huge amount of explosives and ammunition had been recovered from them, he said.
Associates nabbed
Earlier in the day, police had arrested two associates of the slain militants, Hamid and Sarik, at Mubarak Chowk in North-West Delhi with more than 10 kgs of RDX.
During interrogation, they revealed three other militants of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba were holed up in a house in Suraj Vihar.
When a team of Special Cell went to the area to investigate, they were fired upon with an AK-56 rifle. The militants also lobbed two grenades at the police team, police sources said.
The policemen returned the fire. The exchange of fire continued for about 50 minutes after which the bodies of three militants were found.
Initial investigations had revealed they had come to Delhi from Jammu and Kashmir and were on their way to Uttaranchal's capital Dehra Dun where they planned to carry out a suicide attack on the IMA, the sources said.
Further investigations and interrogation of the arrested militants was on to ascertain if more of their associates were involved in the operation, they added
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Sucn incidents have happened dozens of times during the last government.I didn't see them as lifting a finger.
well the last govt nearly started a war which you have conveniently forgotton...
Mobilising the Indian military for 10 months on the border & pulling back is not my idea of punitive action.There is a world of difference between posturing & real action.
& the only 2 times India has taken a conflict into Pakiland were under Congress governments.
"During interrogation, they revealed three other militants of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba were holed up in a house in Suraj Vihar."
Maybe a little underwear torture going on?
Hey,hate to say it,the Indian military & police forces are renowned at interrogation & all the naughty things done during that time.If you hear the kind of things they have done,you will think that the folks at Abu Ghraib are benevolent!!
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