04-07-2006, 05:13 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>'Lucknows temples were next on militants list'</b>
Press Trust of India
Updated: Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 1719 hours IST
Lucknow, April 6: <b>Six Harkat-ul-Jehad al Islami (HuJI)militants</b>, 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 yesterday, 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 on Ramnavami day today 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 Waliullah, who was the mastermind behind the twin blasts in Varanasi on March 7.
They also revealed during interrogation that three Bangladeshi militants who had triggered blasts in Varanasi could also be behind the last year's terror blasts in Delhi and Shramjeevi Express train near Jaunpur. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Till now media/police had used following group names for 6 terrorist
Harkat-ul-Jehad al Islami (HuJI)
Jaish-e-Mohammad
Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)
Press Trust of India
Updated: Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 1719 hours IST
Lucknow, April 6: <b>Six Harkat-ul-Jehad al Islami (HuJI)militants</b>, 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 yesterday, 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 on Ramnavami day today 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 Waliullah, who was the mastermind behind the twin blasts in Varanasi on March 7.
They also revealed during interrogation that three Bangladeshi militants who had triggered blasts in Varanasi could also be behind the last year's terror blasts in Delhi and Shramjeevi Express train near Jaunpur. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Till now media/police had used following group names for 6 terrorist
Harkat-ul-Jehad al Islami (HuJI)
Jaish-e-Mohammad
Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)