In a massive achievement for anti-terror forces, the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested an Islamic State operative in the national capital’s Dhaula Kuan area after an exchange of fire late last night.
The operative has been identified as Abdul Yusuf Khan, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. He was arrested near Ridge Road between Dhaula Kuan and Karol Bagh. The police have also recovered a pistol on him.
Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weighing approximately 15 kilogrammes was recovered on the terrorist. Khan was travelling on his TVS Apache motorbike when he was intercepted by the police.
“The ISIS operative was arrested along with IEDs that were in his possession,” Pramod Singh Kushwaha, Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Delhi Police Special Cell, said.
Security forces have been deployed near the Buddha Jayanti Park in Ridge Road area from where the ISIS operative was arrested. They are now defusing the bomb. The operative has now been brought to the Delhi Police Special Cell office in Lodhi Colony.
Commandoes from the National Security Guard and sniffer dogs have been pressed into action to comb the entire area from where the Islamic State operative was nabbed.
The police claim Khan was a lone wolf operative who had on his own planned an attack in the national capital.
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