Arrested Huji ultras planed to bomb Hanuman temples

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Arrested Huji ultras had plans to blow up Hanuman temples

Friday April 7 2006 00:41 IST

PTI

 

LUCKNOW: Six Harkat-ul-Jehad Al Islami (Huji) militants, including

the mastermind behind the Varanasi blasts, had hatched a conspiracy

to blow up the two Hanuman temples' in the city on Ramnavami, state

police's special task force sources said on Thursday.

 

A map of the city had been recovered from the possession of

militants, who were arrested on Wednesday, marking the spots which

they had planned to strike, the sources said.

 

They said militants had planned to blow up the old Hanuman temples

at Aliganj and the one near Lucknow University in the city Ramnavami

Day on Thursday as a large number of devotees pay obeisance there on

this day. Sources said some Pakistani passports had also been

recovered from them.

 

The STF was in touch with Central intelligence agencies and efforts

were on to nab their masters in Bangladesh with the help of the

Interpol, they said.

 

The STF had arrested six Huji militants, including Wali Ullah.

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