New Delhi: Term it as a rigorous follow-up operations of Home Minister Amit Shah's directives, security agencies have launched a massive manhunt and anti-terror operations in different locations across India. The manhunt follows fresh inputs from intelligence agencies that say that forces inimical to India's security might try to create sabotage during the ongoing festival season.
Both NIA and Intelligence Bureau (IB) have put their states branches on high alert. "We have sent an alert message to all States and UTs to strongly maintain law and order situation," said a senior home ministry official.
Quoting intelligence reports, the official said that major metros like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore are on target of terror organizations.
Significantly, Delhi police special cell has arrested a Pakistani national who is suspected to be a member of terror outfit from Delhi's Laxmi Nagar area on Tuesday. Arms and ammunition have also been recovered from his possession.
Different teams of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches in 16 various locations in Kashmir valley on Tuesday following inputs that Pakistan-based terror outfits may create sabotage in Jammu & Kashmir and other major cities across India.
The search operations were carried out mainly against members and overground activists of proscribed terrorist organizations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), and their offshoots like The Resistant Front (TRF), People Against Fascist Forces (PAFF) among others.
The intelligence agencies have pointed out that many more members of terror organizations are trying to sneak into India from across the border along the western frontier. It may be mentioned here that Home Minister Amit Shah in a recent meeting with the chief of paramilitary forces, intelligence agencies asked them to intensify anti-terror operations following the killing of civilians in J&K by Pakistan based terrorist organization.
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