New Delhi: The Delhi Police Special Cell has been left red-faced after acting on an intelligence input that later turned out to be a hoax. Moreover, when quizzed about the faux pas, Special Cell officials seem to be saying contradictory things, raising suspicions of a cover-up theprint reported.
On 20 November, the national capital was put on high alert after the intelligence agencies received an input about the presence of two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) ‘terrorists’ in Delhi.
Posters of the two men dressed in kurtas and skullcaps were put up across central Delhi, alerting the public to keep a lookout for them. However, a day later, the posters were pulled down, raising doubts about the kind of analysis intelligence inputs are put through.
The two smiling youth in the photo were posing beside an Urdu-language milestone that read “Firozpur-9 kilometres, Delhi-360 kilometres”. But it is learnt that the youth never left Islamabad — in fact, Pakistani police authorities held a press conference on 26 November, stating that the two were madrassa students whose photo was “wrongly used” by Indian agencies.
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