New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- During preliminary interrogation related to a terror module handled by a Lashkar handler based in Bangladesh, accused Umar Faruk revealed that he came in contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handler Shabir Ahmad Lone in March 2025. Lone reportedly sought to use illegally staying Bangladeshi nationals to execute terror strikes on Indian establishments.

Shabir Ahmad Lone, a native of Kangan, Srinagar, J&K, was previously arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell in 2007 with a large cache of arms, including AK-47 rifles and grenades. He has been allegedly linked in the past to Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and reportedly trained at LeT camps in Muzaffarabad backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

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