Abdul Latif Ganai, alias Umair alias Dilawar, allegedly a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has been arrested on the charge of planning terror strikes in heavy footfall areas in the national capital during Republic Day celebrations, Delhi Police officials said on January 24.

He was arrested with incriminating material by the police’s Special Cell on the intervening night of January 20 and 21 after a tip-off that a terrorist, the mastermind behind the recent grenade attacks in Srinagar, was planning similar terror strikes in Delhi, an official said.

A team rushed to Jammu and Kashmir and recovered two IED/grenades. It also arrested another terrorist, Hilal, from Bandipora who had carried out recce of the target areas in Delhi.

Information about the module was shared with the Srinagar police, who thereafter arrested terrorists involved in grenade attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.