New Delhi: After UP police detained two people in connection with the Varanasi attack, the Goa police too arrested a millitant on charges of plotting a terror attack.
During his interrogation, Tarique Anwar, who was arrested with explosives and firearms from Margao railway station, has confessed that Pakistan-based Tariq-ul-Mujahid militant outfit, to which he belongs to, "was targeting busy tourist places in the State," the sources said.
Police have also recovered 2 kilos RDX, two hand grenades, a detonator, three mobile phones and three cameras from him.
He was arrested on the basis of intelligence inputs. Police teams have fanned out across the state to check his local links and more arrests are likely.
"He was frequenting Goa for the last six months and was staying in a flat near Margao city," they said.
However, they revealed that "Tariq was just a carrier of explosives".
The executor of the attack was yet to arrive in the state, they said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has snapped back at the Uttar Pradesh and the Jammu & Kashmir Police in the Varanasi investigation case. Delhi Police has made clear that it had never picked up Salar – the militant killed in Lucknow.
The Delhi Police has asked the two state police forces to refrain from making baseless allegations.
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