Two held for plotting attack on Mumbai oil tanks
By TNN & Agencies |
MUMBAI: Two persons were on Sunday arrested by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for allegedly planning to set one of the ONGC establishments here on fire, police said.
The accused, identified as Abdul Latif Rashid (29) and Riyaz Ali (23), have been arrested from the city, they said.
"The two were preparing to set one of the ONGC establishments in the city on fire following instructions from someone called 'Uncle'," an ATS officer said adding "we are probing if the directions had come from across the border".
The two terror suspects were granted police custody till March 18 by a local court.
The duo had conducted a recce of the sensitive Nhava-Sheva area of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in south-east Mumbai, an ATS official said.
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Police have recovered several maps of the areas they were planning to strike from them. They are suspected to have links with international terror outfits, the official said. The JNPT is among the most sensitive installations in the city and barely a few kilometres away from Colaba, which was the landing point of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who had attacked Mumbai Nov 26, 2008
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