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RDX AT AMBALA
JK Police team rushes to Delhi
Ravi Krishnan Khajuria/TNS

Jammu, October 14
A day after the recovery of an RDX-laden car in Ambala, the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) today rushed a team to Delhi to coordinate with Delhi and Haryana Police officials.

Jammu zone IGP Dilbagh Singh said, “Since the Delhi Police is probing the case, a team headed by SP (Operations) Pawan Parihar has been rushed to Delhi to coordinate in the probe.”

“We are also in touch with the Ambala police,” said the IGP. “The data about the blue Indica car and its movement before it reached Ambala Cantt railway station is being shared with the Delhi Police,” he added.

It may be stated here that 5 kg of RDX, seven detonators and two timers concealed in empty sweet boxes of a famous sweet meat seller of Jammu and some copies of Jammu-based newspapers were found from the car.

Sources said the explosives were meant for a terror strike, plotted by the LeT and the Babbar Khalsa, possibly in Delhi, ahead of Diwali.

When asked whether the state police has also started probing the nexus between the LeT, the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), the IGP said it was premature to say anything at this stage.

“It depends upon clues and leads being developed by the Delhi Police in tandem with the Haryana Police,” said the IGP, adding that the investigators, including the Jammu and Kashmir Police, were exploring all leads in the probe.

Haryana DGP Rajiv Dalal had sought assistance from the Jammu and Kashmir Police as regards a probe into the recovery of explosives at Ambala.

Ten days ago, intelligence agencies had alerted the Delhi Police about the explosive-laden car to be used for a terror strike in Delhi on Diwali, sources said.

On the BKI-KZF-LeT nexus to plot the possible strike, police sources said the BKI was not active in Jammu and Kashmir and the KZF head Ranjeet Singh, alias Neeta of Simbal camp in Jammu, was in Lahore.

It has also been reliably learnt that Jammu and Kashmir DGP Kuldeep Khoda has asked the police to verify whether any of the check points, including Lower Munda and Lakhanpur, had any details of the car.

The car had a fake registration number (0054 HR03R) and had purportedly entered Jammu from Lakhanpur on October 4 and returned with explosives concealed in two sweet boxes on October 12 in the morning.