{"id":13381,"date":"2014-03-25T03:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/india-averts-major-terror-attack\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T03:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:41:58","slug":"india-averts-major-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/india-averts-major-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"India Averts Major Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{Media in India are giving prominent coverage to the arrest of four suspected militants ahead of the general elections.}}<\/p>\n

Senior police officers say they have averted “a spectacular terror strike” by arresting four alleged members of the banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) group.<\/p>\n

Polling for a new Lok Sabha, or lower house of India’s parliament, will be held from 7 April to 12 May. Votes will be counted on 16 May.<\/p>\n

“We have arrested Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas, a Pakistani national, Sunday. He, along with his accomplices, was planning a major attack in the country,” a report in the Business Standard quotes SN Srivastava, a top police official in Delhi, as saying.<\/p>\n

India’s intelligence agencies and police blame the IM for several terror attacks in the past few years.<\/p>\n

The police arrested Waqas and three other IM members from the northern state of Rajasthan after an intelligence-sharing operation between different police forces, the Hindustan Times reports.<\/p>\n

Waqas is wanted in connection with bomb blasts in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad over the past several years. He is reportedly a bomb expert, reports say.<\/p>\n

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the arrest of Waqas was a great success, as he was a crucial link to the group, Reuters news agency reports.<\/p>\n

His arrest is the second major setback for the IM as its founder, Yasin Bhatkal, was arrested in Nepal last year, papers say.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, tourists travelling in groups will now be able to book an entire coach in the Delhi metro to see the city, the Hindustan Times reports.<\/p>\n

“The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has decided to allow tour operators, government and private agencies, or any individual on behalf of a group or school to avail the facility,” the paper says.<\/p>\n

Booking a coach may cost anywhere between 30,000-50,000 rupees (\u00a3300-500, $490-820), the paper adds.<\/p>\n

In other news, a 24-year-old woman’s breasts were allegedly cut off by another woman and two male accomplices in Bhiwandi on the outskirts of Mumbai, The Deccan Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n

The victim was attacked after she refused to work as a sex worker in a brothel run by the 34-year-old woman, the paper adds.<\/p>\n

Police say the woman has been arrested but the male suspects are still at large, the paper reports.<\/p>\n

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