India | Updated Feb 10, 2008 at 10:44am IST

CRPF camp attack: 6 LeT militants arrested in UP

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: The Special Task Force (STF) in UP has busted a big Lashkar-e-Toiba terror module in the state.

Six suspected militants including to 2 from Pakistan were arrested in Bareilly and Lucknow on Saturday night.

The militants were alleged to be behind the suicide attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur and the attack on IISC in Bangalore two year ago. They were also reportedly plotting big attack in Mumbai.

The militants were arrested along with a large cache of arms and ammunitions.

Heavily-armed militants in an attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur had killed eight persons, including seven security personnel. In Bangalore attack, one Delhi-IIT professor was killed by militants.

Hand grenades and RDX were recovered from their possession, the sources said, adding the militants were planning to leave the town for Mumbai when they were nabbed.

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