NEW DELHI, SEPT 1: Police have recovered over 10.65 kg of RDX following the arrest of a dreaded terrorist of the Harkat-ul-Ansar in the Capital.Mohammed Akbar Bhatt alias Gajali, who is a self-styled ``operational commander'' of the terrorist organisation, was part of a mission planned to cause ``large-scale blasts'' in the city on the eve of elections. An accomplice of Bhatt's was also picked up and efforts are now on to trace a third person who escaped the police dragnet.Addressing a Press conference on Tuesday, Delhi Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma said the seizure was made at 7 pm on Monday when a team of the special cell, acting on a tip off, apprehended Gajali near the Delhi Zoo.Police had received information that a Kashmiri militant would be coming there with a cache of explosives. The police spotted the suspect in front of the zoo and lay in wait, monitoring his movement.Gajali had come there to meet a contact and hand over the consignment of explosives for safekeeping until the eve of elections. As the contact failed to turn up, Gajali started to leave when the police team swooped down on him.On questioning, Gajali initially identified himself as Abdul Latif Mir, a businessman and produced an identity card to this effect.However, when the team searched his bag, they found 10.65 kg of RDX, two pencil timers and a wireless set.Two incriminating documents were also found in his possession.The first contained the names of 51 militants who had lost their lives during operations with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The other document contained a coded script that he used to communicate with his masters across the border, Sharma said.Sharma said that subsequent interrogation revealed that Gajali had an accomplice, Shahnawaz, who was at a guest house in the Jama Masjid area.Subsequently, Shahnawaz was arrested in a raid and Rs two lakh seized from his possession. Shahnawaz is a disabled person and worked for Gajali while he was evading security forces.Gajali was produced at the Tiz Hazari courts and remanded to 10 days in police custody. His accomplice Shahnawaz has been remanded to 14 days in judicial custody.Gajali, who is a self-styled ``divisional commander'' of the Doda, Anantnag and Srinagar region, had come to the Capital from Pakistan with instructions to receive a consignment of explosives and money. The explosives were to be used to conduct a series of blasts in crowded places during the elections, while the money was meant for families of dead militants.Prior to this operation in the Capital, Gajali is said to have been trained in Pak-oocupied-Kashmir, where he underwent several courses, including one called Tehsisya, which included 40 days' training in LMGs, AK-47s, pistols and grenades.He then undertook a specialised course called Jindullah where he learnt the manufacture of improvised explosive devices and the use of rocket launchers, mortar guns etc.At the end of the training, he joined the Taliban and fought in Afghanistan against Rashid Dostum's forces.During his stint in the Kashmir Valley, he was involved in the killing of 18 BSF personnel, a Major of the Rashtriya Rifles at Doda, an attack on an Army camp, and the killing of several Hindus in Doda district, Sharma said.Based on the information that Gajali has given, police have sent a team to Jammu and Kashmir to recover more arms and explosives.His disclosure has helped piece together the entire organisational structure of the Harkat-ul-Ansar, police sources said.
