New Delhi: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India’s leadership elite, in Russia, a foreign counter-terror agency had, in July, shared with India information on the recruitment, top intelligence sources told CNN.
On July 27, a foreign anti-terror agency informed India about a bomber arrested in Russia. The agency said that two suicide bombers, from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, were ready for the terrorist attack in India, said sources. One of them was based in Turkey.
According to the shared inputs, these men were from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) and were to come to India. The ISKP had decided that they would only use central Asians for the suicide attack. The motive of the bomber was to possibly attack leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or its associates such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to avenge the insult of Prophet Mohammed, said sources.
India was told that they would come via Russia and their visa application would go to the Russian Embassy in Moscow or some other consulate in August, said sources. These details were also shared with Russia, which led to his detention by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said sources.
RAIDS AFTER INPUTS
As Indian agencies got the inputs on the plan around July 27, the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) held meetings across the country to break the backbone of the IS network.
