Attack on BSE foiled, 6 militants arrested: Cops

The Special Task Force (STF) in Uttar Pradesh has busted a big Lashkar-e-Toiba terror module in the state.

Six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants including two from Pakistan were arrested in Bareilly and Lucknow on Saturday night.

According to the UP police, they were also planning to attack the Bombay stock exchange.

The STF claims they found passports, maps of Mumbai and railway tickets to Mumbai on those six men. Two AK-47s, 5 grenades and a pistol were also recovered during the arrest.

The militants were alleged to be behind the suicide attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur and the attack on IISC in Bangalore two year ago.

Heavily armed militants in an attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur had killed eight persons, including seven security personnel. In Bangalore attack, one Delhi-IIT professor was killed by militants.

Hand grenades and RDX were recovered from their possession, the sources said, adding the militants were planning to leave the town for Mumbai when they were nabbed.

Three LeT militants - Suhail and Arshad Ali alias Baba, both residents of UP, and Fayheem, a Pakistani national - were arrested from a state roadways bus in Rampur when they were planning to go to Mumbai.

In Lucknow, three militants - Sallahuddin, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, and Imran and Farooq, both from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) - were nabbed when they were trying to leave the city.

Sallahuddin was allegedly the mastermind of the attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on this New Year's day.

According to the police sources, the two PoK residents had been tasked to act as suicide attackers while the two others provided cover to them. However, in the melee, all the four had managed to escape.

The arrested militants were moving in two separate groups and their next destination was Mumbai where Fayheem had hired a room, the sources said, adding they were waiting for fresh instructions from across the border.