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Now, varsities on LeT hit list
IF INTELLIGENCE reports are to be believed, universities are next on the hit list of the deadly Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. The alarm was sounded by the state intelligence after the Bundelkhand University got a terror warning recently.
IF INTELLIGENCE reports are to be believed, universities are next on the hit list of the deadly Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. The alarm was sounded by the state intelligence after the Bundelkhand University got a terror warning recently.
Stressing on elaborate security cover around all the universities, the missive from Vishesh Koshtha or VK in the state intelligence presents a scary picture for certain universities and institutes like the Indian Institution of Technology, Kanpur.
The epistle sent to the IG, Kanpur Zone says that LeT has several universities on is radar and plans to stage some spectacular action in the days ahead. The alarms bells started ringing when Deputy vice-chancellor of Bundelkhand University received a letter on August 22 from an anonymous person who claimed to be a LeT operative.
The sender threatened to flatten Bundelkhand University, Chandra Shekhar University for Agriculture and Technology Kanpur and another university. “We are from the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, assigned to bring down the university with two other institutions. By God’s grace we will succeed in our mission, no one can stop us,” SP (VK), BK Baghel quoted from the letter in his SOS dispatched on August 25 .
Baghel’s letter underlined the new strategy of striking at institutions and sought to beef up security at the universities. The letter assumes significance as the IIT-Kanpur has been warned of terror attack via e-mails this year . Of these, one e-mail was sent to the President of India and the Prime Minister’s Office, close to the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
The name of another city-based institution figuring on the hit list has made the authorities here sit up. The IG zone has asked DIG Daljit Chowdhary and SSP PC Meena to review the security at the universities named. According to sources, the security around CSA University and the CSJM University has already been stepped up with SP (East) being asked to monitor it regularly.
The central agencies had also been informed about the development and feedback had been sought, added the sources.
