However, the police denied that the two residents of Muzaffarnagar were riot victims or had anything to do with the violence there.
Delhi Police’s Special Commissioner of Special Cell S N Shrivastava told the media that the suspected operatives Mohd Shahid and Mohd Rashid, who have been arrested recently from Mewat region of Haryana, had met Liyakat and Zameer, Muzaffarnagar residents, in connection with mobilising funds for construction of a mosque.
The Special Cell had last month claimed to have busted a terror module of Lashkar-e-Toiba which was in an “advanced stage” of planning a militant strike in Delhi with the arrest of these two suspected LeT operatives.