Gujarat Police’s director general of police DGP Vikas Sahai told media persons that the ATS had received specific information regarding the arrival of four terrorists by air or rail on May 18- 19. The group had arrived in Chennai from Sri Lanka on Sunday and travelled from Chennai to Ahmedabad via an Indigo flight on Monday, he said.
Sahai said ISIS leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi had indoctrinated the four people and they were motivated to work as suicide bombers. Interrogation revealed that they were given four lakh rupees in Sri Lankan currency to carry out their plan, he said. Two mobile phones with incriminating photographs and location data of Nana Child near Gandhinagar were recovered from them, he said. “On interrogation, they revealed that their Pakistani handler had stashed weapons in this location for their use,” Sahai said, adding that ATS recovered three Pakistani pistols and 20 cartridges from the location, apart from an ISIS flag, which indicated that it was meant to be displayed after carrying out an attack.
