The National Investigating Agencies (NIA) and the State police are tight-lipped over the issue, but the evidence and tickets recovered from the two arrested IM suspects — Numan and Mujibullah — indicate that the duo had an elaborate plan for a reccee to indulge in some nefarious activities ahead of Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on May 26.
The tickets recovered from their possession point towards the possibility that they had a plan to travel to Delhi on May 24. Mujibullah and Numan Ansari were arrested from Ranchi and Palamu respectively on Wednesday night.
According to Palamu SP YS Ramesh NIA during the raid had recovered three railway tickets — one from Mughalsarai to Delhi, another for Nizamuddin to Amritsar and the third one for Amritsar to lucknow from their possession.
“We have recovered three train tickets, along with other technological gadgets, revealing that they had a plan to go to Delhi on May 24. Palmau Police and the NIA are carrying out detailed investigations regarding their plans and movements,” said Ramesh. The ticket had been obtained for Numan Ansari and Mujibullah, added Ramesh.
The SP, however, refused to divulge the details of investigation citing the reasons that the case is under the NIA.
Both the suspects were to take Mahabodhi Express from Mughalsarai to New Delhi while the other two suspects arrested from Ranchi could had easily reached to New Delhi, via Kolkata, if they did not like to take a direct train to Delhi.
"We have recovered another set of two tickets for a return journey from Amritsar to lucknow on May 27. We suspect that it was an elaborate plan for a reccee to carry out terror strikes," said a police official.
The NIA officials terming the arrests of Haider Ali and the other three suspects, who had a key role in hatching the conspiracy to kill the Prime Minister designate, as a 'big success', had also asserted that it was definitely the conspiracy was to harm Modi.
Senior police officials in the State police are also not willing to share the information with media as the case is being monitored by the NIA.
A conspiracy had been hatched to harm Prime Minister-designate Modi, the National Investigation Agency has claimed that it has cracked Patna serial blasts case with the arrest of four persons including a juvenile allegedly having association with banned terror groups like SIMI and IM.
After the Patna blasts, these suspects had been in hiding in different places with fake identities. Haider and Mujibullah were arrested from Ranchi and based on their questioning; two more accused were arrested at Daltonganj with the help of local police, personally supervised by Palamu SP.
Terming Haider as the 'kingpin' behind recent blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya, an official statement released by the NIA in New Delhi also revealed that he had recruited young boys for carrying out the disruptive activities. According to the NIA officials, Haider had been attempting to revive the sagging morale of the cadres of his organisation.