Leads from 2008 #Ahmedabad blasts (57 killed) helped in identifying the perpetrators of Delhi blasts (39 killed) & led us to L-18 #BatlaHouse: @singhkarnal2, then Jt CP @DelhiPolice tells me on #IndiaFirst. @GujaratPolice tracked #IndianMujahideen. Had reported 2008 Ahd blasts🖕 
In Ahmedabad blasts #IndianMujahideen terrorists had planted the 5th & the most powerful bomb at the hospital. Their aim was to kill not just injured from other blast sites but also their relatives, doctors, police etc at hospital (Yet some give intellectual cover fire to terror)
#IndianMujahideen terrorists had also planned serial blasts in #Surat. IEDs planted on trees & billboards to inflict head injuries. Fortunately the circuit was defective.100s of lives were saved. A @GujaratPolice officer had told me a special team was constituted to neutralise IM
The team carried out painstaking probe. CCTV camera images, car dealers, informers, mobile numbers. one mobile number was traced back to L18, Batla House. It was shared with central agencies & @DelhiPolice. Once Delhi module was busted after #BatlaHouseEncounter, Delhi was safer.
Consider the long & influential list of those who called the #BatlaHouse encounter fake, even before the probe was over. Academics, lawyers, influencers & the narrative constructed. Was it deliberately built ignoring facts on ground that @DelhiPolice repeatedly tried to give out?
#BatlaHouse #IshratJahan #Samjhautablasts: multiple & shameful examples of politics adversely impacting India's war on terror.
In the #IshratJahan encounter case (again a story I covered closely) the intelligence inputs came from the central agencies in writing. Yet politicised.
In the #IshratJahan encounter case (again a story I covered closely) the intelligence inputs came from the central agencies in writing. Yet politicised.
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