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IM planned to send poison letters to kill targets: Delhi Police

New Delhi: Indian Mujahideen was planning to send letters "soaked with poison" to their targets to kill them, the Delhi Police has told a court in its chargesheet filed against six suspected men of the

Giving details of code words used by these accused during their Internet chats, the police said arrested IM co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was called 'Bhaiya' while 'CV' was used for explosives and 'beb' for top IM operative Iqbal Bhatkal. It claimed that 'Badey' was used for al-Qaeda and Taliban while Pakistan was termed as 'Gaon'.

The police had filed this chargesheet on August 8 in connection with a case of allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory here from where a huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered.

The matter will come up for hearing on Thursday before the court.

The police had earlier chargesheeted IM India Chief Yasin Bhatkal, his aide Assadullah Akhtar and various others, including alleged IM operative Quateel Siddiqui who had died inside Pune's Yerawada central jail in June 8, 2012, in connection with the case.

The special cell had alleged that these accused had set up the arms factory in Meer Vihar area of Nangloi in Outer Delhi for manufacturing arms and ammunition to carry out terrorist activities in Delhi and other parts of the country. It had claimed that a huge quantity of IEDs, explosives materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from the factory.

The police had in November 2011, busted the factory located in Meer Vihar area and several IM suspects were arrested.

It had said the weapons manufacturing unit had elaborate equipment like moulding, cutting, assembly drilling and grinding machines besides explosives and rocket launchers.

Tehsin was arrested from near Kakarvitta Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling district of West Bengal on March 25.

Zia-Ur-Rehman was arrested outside Ajmer Railway Station on March 22 and his three associates -- Maroof, Azhar, both residents of Jaipur, and Ansari, a resident of Jodhpur, were arrested by the police on March 23 and thereafter, brought to Delhi.

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