Srinagar, May 02: The Jammu and Kashmir police today claimed to have made a breakthrough in the Delhi terror threat case with the detention of a suspected LeT operative hailing from Srinagar.
Umar Zargar, the Kashmiri youth, made the telephone calls at the behest of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba warning that blasts will be carried out in crowded markets of Delhi, police said.
Highly-placed sources in the Jammu and Kashmir Home Department said that the man was detained in the wee hours after a massive manhunt was launched to nab him.
Last week, the security agencies had monitored his activities including his conversation with one “Furqan”, suspected to be a LeT operative across the border.
Zargar had claimed that terror groups had entered India through Bangladesh and Nepal to carry out blasts in the national capital.
–Agencies