By IANS
Lucknow : Two Pakistanis are among six suspected members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group arrested for an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Uttar Pradesh on New Year’s day.
The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police said the arrests of the LeT militants were made from different places in the state Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Eight people, including seven CRPF personnel, were killed in the attack on the CRPF camp at Rampur, some 300 km from here.
Two of the arrested men were Pakistanis while the rest hailed from Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, a police spokesman said. They have been brought to the STF headquarters in Lucknow.
The police recovered two AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and a large cache of ammunition and explosive material from them. Two Pakistani passports were also seized.
The first arrest was made from Munda Pandey town in Shahjahanpur district around midnight, the spokesman said.
Following the leads he provided, two more arrests were made from the Rampur bus station. The remaining three were nabbed from Charbagh area in Lucknow Sunday.
“Their interrogation has led to startling revelations about their plans to execute major terror strikes in certain parts of the country,” the official added.
The police suspect that some prominent political leaders were on their hit list.