ISIS module busted, 2 held for plotting suicide attacks

Terror attack foiled by police

- Jignasa Sinha and Shruti Tomar

day said it has busted an alleged terror module affiliated to ISIS by arresting two men who were allegedly planning “suicide attacks” in the national capital during festive season.

The two suspects 19-year-old Md Adnan and 20-year-old Adnan Khan ~— were detained from Sadiq Nagar in south Delhi and from Bhopal respectively, police said on Friday.

Thearrests disrupted a cell that police said was carrying out online radicalisation, recruitment and preparations for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) aimed at crowded public places, said additional commissioner of police (special cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah.

“Their plans to attack crowded areas during the festival season were averted,” Kushwah said.

He added that one of the accused, Md Adnan, admitted taking a pledge of allegiance to ISIS chief Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, and that officers recovered a video showing him in “ISIS attire.”

Police said the probe began after surveillance flagged a network disseminating jihadi material and recruiting followers through social media.

A senior police officer investigating the case said, “We suspected that they were planning terror attacks in Delhi during the festive season.”