Dec. 23: Four members of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) have sneaked into Mumbai recently to carry out “violent” attacks with the aim of causing “destruction”, police said Thursday night.
Police also released the photograph of one of them and issued an advisory to the citizens of the metropolis to remain alert.
“The four were identified as Abdul Kareem Moosa, Noor Abu Ilahi, Walid Jinnah and Mahfooz Alam. The four recently sneaked into the city to carry out extremely dangerous activity,” joint police commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy told a news conference. Roy also released a sketch of Jinnah. The strikes were being planned in connection with possibly the upcoming Christmas and New Year's festivities, he added.
Roy said he had no information on the nationalities of the four persons. On Tuesday, the Centre sounded a terror alert for Mumbai and Ahmedabad following specific Intelligence inputs that the LeT teams may have entered the two western cities to carry out strikes. The four persons are in the age group of 20 to 30 years, Roy said.
Meanwhile, in a fresh proposal, India has conveyed to Pakistan that it wants to send a commission to Islamabad to question LeT terrorists, in connection with the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.