New Delhi/Ambala:
About five kilos of RDX, enough to trigger a massive explosion, two timers and five detonators were found in a car parked outside the Ambala Cantonment railway station on Wednesday night, after a tip-off about a possible terrorist attack.
The Delhi Police have now revealed that the explosives were meant to carry out a terror attack in the national capital.
"Central intelligence agencies had informed us that a module of the LeT was active in Jammu and Kashmir. The explosives had been brought by LeT and were meant to be used by terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International in Delhi," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arun Kampani told reporters on Thursday in New Delhi.
Intelligence sources said the RDX was not yet in IED (Improvised Explosive Detonator) form; it was not connected to any detonator or timer and so the blue Indica Car seemed to have been a carriage vehicle bound for a terror attack.
Sources said the Delhi Police Special cell got a tip-off and they alerted the Haryana Police. A National Security Guard (NSG) team, including a bomb disposal squad, was also rushed to the spot.
The car and the RDX is being brought to Delhi in a truck. The investigating agencies are trying to trace the owner of the car, which has a Haryana registration number which the police suspect could be fake. The car too could be stolen, they say. A sweet box with a Jammu address was also found inside the car.
Security has been stepped up and the Ambala railway station has been cordoned off. All roads in the area have been closed temporarily.
Special teams of the Delhi and Haryana police and the NSG are handling investigations.
(With IANS inputs)