Police in northern India have held six alleged Islamic militants suspected of planning an attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), a report said on Monday.
“The BSE was going to be their first target,” said Amitabh Yash, a police officer with Uttar Pradesh state’s anti-terror force, according to a report in the Times of India. “These terrorists have multiple targets. In case they fail in one, they quickly move on to the next.”
The men are all believed to be members of the hard-line Lashkar-e-Taiba. The rebel outfit has been previously been linked to al-Qaeda by India’s national security advisor MK Narayanan.
Narayanan reiterated the connection on Sunday in Munich at an annual gathering of security experts, where he said the outfit in question and other Asian militant groups were part of al-Qaeda’s “elite terrorist network.”