Srinagar, May 2: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday detained a local youth who reportedly sent out an email after getting phone calls from across the border.
It is suspected this might have contributed to the warnings issued by the United States and some other governments to their citizens advising them to avoid certain crowded Delhi marketplaces over the weekend as these could be the target of “imminent” terror strikes.

The authorities initially refused to disclose the youth’s name or say where he was picked up in a pre-dawn raid, but he was later identified as Umar Zargar from Srinagar. The police confirmed he was questioned over suspected terrorist links.
[PTI, quoting sources, said Zargar was believed to be in touch with a person in Delhi, whose identity was being ascertained. The sources said Lashkar-e-Tayyaba had asked him to make frivolous calls to create panic among people.]
It is learnt that the same person had misguided the intelligence agencies on earlier occasions too through such activities, but could not be arrested for various reasons.
Police sources here said another person was detained later on Sunday after his name was mentioned by the arrested youth as an accomplice.

Yusuf Jameel