Two arrested in Mumbai for plot to blow up oil tanks
By IANSSunday, March 14, 2010
MUMBAI - A Mumbai court granted police custody till March 18 to two terror suspects arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Sunday for allegedly plotting to blow up oil tanks of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The duo, Latif and Riyaz, nabbed after a tip-off, had conducted a recce of the sensitive Nhava-Sheva area of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in south-east Mumbai, an ATS official said.
Police have recovered several maps of the areas they were planning to strike from them. They are suspected to have links with international terror outfits, the official said.
The JNPT is among the most sensitive installations in the city and barely a few kilometres away from Colaba, which was the landing point of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who had attacked Mumbai Nov 26, 2008.
