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The three alleged ISIS operatives arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell were “learning bomb making” through exchange of videos with their “trans-national handlers” on encrypted messaging apps, according to intelligence sources aware of details related to their interrogation.
Terming Shahnawaz Alam (31) the key player for allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes in northern India, sources claimed since the trio were “just starting out”, their handlers were sending them instructional videos on bomb-making followed by assessments of “videos of their work”.
“Alam used to receive instructional videos on configuring Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from his handlers who had further tasked him with sending them real-time videos of putting the devices together,” a source claimed, citing his interrogation.
“Apart from assessing videos of the couple constructing IEDs so they could correct him and fill in any gaps in creating them, the handlers also asked them to share videos of test blasts so they could check if the device had detonated properly for feedback on making effective ones,” the source also claimed.
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In addition to being in contact with handlers in “Pakistan as well as Syria” through popular messaging apps, sources claimed, the three had charted out potential targets ranging including “temples, government installations and local BJP leaders”. “Shahnawaz had led the recce of several locations across the country and shared information of locations that could potentially be targetted with his handlers who are based in more than one international location,” sources claimed.
Shahnawaz’s wife, whom sources said was also “a potential threat, was also part of the IED assembling and assessment exercise. “Shahnawaz got married just three years ago to a woman in Aligarh,” police claimed.
The couple had, according to police, taken to making IEDs in Delhi until they found some suitable contacts to be able to migrate to Afghanistan. These IEDs, police claimed, were tested by them at several locations in Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.
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