The Jahangirpuri terror suspects had been in contact with a Pakistani handler who was lodged in an Indian jail, high intelligence sources have advised CNN-News18. The handler wished them to kill Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders, they added.

The two terror suspects— Naushad, 56, a Jahangirpuri resident, and Jagjit Singh, 29, a resident of Uttarakhand— had been arrested by the particular cell of Delhi police for beheading a 21-year-old man within the capital’s Jahangirpuri space and chopping his physique into eight items, recording, it and sending it to their Pakistani handler, to show their loyalty, mentioned sources.

Their greater plan was disrupted on the proper time as they had been planning “something big” in opposition to “right-wingers”, in accordance to high intelligence sources.

Naushad and Jagjit Singh had been arrested on Thursday and 22 cartridges and three pistols had been recovered from them. A courtroom on Friday despatched them to 14-day police custody.​

The police have recovered the video by which the accused are seen strangulating the person earlier than beheading him, and have six items of the physique from the town’s Bhalswa Dairy space.

Delhi police is now in search of 4 different suspects who allegedly obtained weapons from Pakistan by the drop-dead methodology.

These 4— Nazeer Bhat and Nazeer Khan of HUL, and Nadeem and Nasir Khan of HM— had been allegedly involved with handlers in Pakistan on the Signal app.

They obtained weapons at unidentified areas in Uttarakhand by a sleeper cell, mentioned sources.

According to particulars accessed by CNN-News18, Naushad in his interrogation mentioned that he’s initially from Bihar. He has some homicide circumstances in opposition to his identify, and in 1997 he wished to free Maulana Masood Azhar from jail.

In Tihar jail, he befriended Pakistani criminals, together with Sohail, who had claimed he was from Kashmir. Sohail was earlier related to the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Naushad was launched from jail in 2018. After Sohail’s launch in 2013, he went again to Pakistan, however stayed in contact with Naushad and would pay him for duties. Naushad was arrested two years later in an extortion case from Uttarakhand.

In jail, he met Jagjit Singh, an affiliate of Canada-based gangster Arshdeep Singh Gill.

Sources mentioned that when Naushad got here out of jail in April 2022, he remained in contact with Sohail. He received along with Singh when the latter jumped parole. Sohail had requested these two to kill a “kafir”.

Acting on his instructions, Naushad and Singh on December 14 strangled a 21-year-old drug addict, beheaded him, and sent the video to Sohail. This 21 year old was shown as devout Hindu with an Om tattoo on his hand.

Even after the killing, Sohail allegedly kept pressurising them to do “something big”. They had been advised to kill two individuals related to a right-wing group in Haridwar for which they had been to get cash.

They had allegedly zeroed in on some right-wing leaders of Punjab and Haridwar including Shiv Sena’s Amit Arora and Bajrang Dal’s Jitender Kumar.

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