India's homegrown terror outfit plans to explode nuclear bomb in western state of Gujarat: report

Indian Mujahideen, a homegrown terror outfit, planned to explode a nuclear bomb in the western state of Gujarat's city of Surat, local media reported Monday.



The terror group's India chief, Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested by police in August this year, revealed this to his interrogators, The Times of India newspaper reported, citing the interrogation report.



According to the report, Bhatkal told the interrogators that he had even asked his Pakistan-based boss, Riyaz Bhatkal, over the phone whether the latter could arrange a small "nuclear bomb" to explode in Surat, to which the overseas chief responded "Anything can be arranged in Pakistan."



"Riyaz told me that attacks can be done with nuclear bombs. I requested him to look for one nuclear bomb for Surat," the newspaper quoted Yasin as saying.



However, the plan could not be initiated as Yasin was tracked by the Indian authorities and subsequently arrested from near the international border with Nepal.

