Terror plan in Delhi foiled: Kupwara man held from Gorakhpur, AK56, grenades, explosive seized from Jama Masjid hotel

During interrogation, Shah revealed that he was instructed to destroy all the passports upon arrival in Kathmandu so that when he and his family entered India, there would be no evidence of any Pakistani connection.



Shah was told to contact a person, related to Hizbul Mujahideen cadre, in a guest house in Delhi's Jama Masjid area who was to provide him arms and ammunition for carrying out the attack in Delhi.

Going by his confession, police were able to recover an AK-56 assault rifle, three hand grenades, two magazines—each carrying 30 round cartridges, 220 grams of explosives, a Delhi map and a memory card from one of the rooms of a hotel in Jama Masjid area in Delhi on the intervening night of March 21-22.