Srinagar: Police have detained a woman from Pune who was suspected to be a suicide bomber.
Kashmir police chief Munir Khan said that police would verify facts and talk to the lady before reaching to any conclusion.
“We had an input about a suspect. Fortunately, after working on all the leads, we were able to apprehend the suspect late last night,” Additional Director General of Police Munir Khan told reporters here.
Refusing to give any further details, Khan, who is also holding the post of Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Range), said, “We will be talking to her (suspect) and we will be talking to our sister agencies. We will be covering every other lead to know what the facts are. After doing proper investigation, we will come to any conclusion.”
Central intelligence agencies had sounded to the state police that a woman from Pune, identified as Sadiya Anwar Shaikh, had shifted herself to Kashmir Valley and was in regular touch with ISIS operatives, officials said.
A high alert was sounded in the valley two days ahead of Republic Day and a message was circulated that “there is a strong input” that an 18-year-old non-Kashmiri woman might “cause a suicide bomb explosion” near or inside the Republic Day parade in Kashmir.
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