Every now and then, some “terrorist” or another is arrested. Never an alleged terrorist, but a proclaimed one. Every now and then there is a blast that kills dozens. We never know who commits these attacks. We never will. A man has been sentenced to death this morning for an attack on the Red Fort. What a circus this is, and what an audience we are. Two news reports below. The first one will affect your reading of the second one.

IB, cops in murky frame-up
By Sachin Parashar, New Delhi, 13 September 2007 (The Times of India)

NEW DELHI: The CBI has found that Intelligence Bureau operatives colluded with Delhi Police special cell sleuths to ‘plant’ RDX on two youths who were arrested as ‘Al Badr terrorists’, TOI has learnt. The shocking conclusion comes a month after the agency told the Delhi High Court that the special cell’s probe into the murky affair “didn’t inspire confidence”.

New Delhi: The CBI has found that Intelligence Bureau operatives colluded with Delhi Police special cell sleuths to ‘plant’ RDX on two youths who were arrested as ‘Al Badr terrorists’, TOI has learnt. The shocking conclusion comes a month after the agency told the Delhi High Court that the special cell’s probe into the murky affair “didn’t inspire confidence”.

Top CBI sources told TOI on Wednesday that the seized RDX appeared to have been planted on the two ‘terrorists’ Mohd Moarif Qamar and Irshad Ali. The agency will submit its report, which indicts officers of IB and Delhi Police special cell, to the court on October 24.

While similar episodes in the past have hurt the credibility of the anti-terror agencies, this one stands out because it marks a rare instance where Intelligence Bureau operatives collaborated in the plot hatched by Delhi Police’s special cell against its former informers.

The IB official named in the CBI report for abducting Qamar is inspector Majid Din. Din had identified himself as Khaled when he picked up Qamar. The CBI, however, managed to track him through the mobile phone which he used to lure his victim. Din had committed the blunder of using his own phone (9810702001) for the purpose. The disclosure can put his senior colleagues in IB also under scrutiny.

Delhi Police special cell officers in the dock after the CBI probe are inspector Sanjay Dutt and sub-inspectors Vinay Tyagi, Ravinder Tyagi and Subhash Vats. The CBI report said they posed as two other officials of special cell, inspectors Hriday Bhushan and Lalit Mohan Negi, to make the frame-up appear a genuine anti-terror operation.

Al-Badr Militant, 3 Lashkar Recruits Arrested: Indian Police

By Fayaz Wani, Srinagar, Sept 10

Indian police claimed that they have arrested a militant of the Pakistan based militant group, Al Badar and detained three recruits of Lashkar-e-Toiba.

A police spokesperson said that police and Indian army personnel in a joint operation arrested an Al-Badar militant Bilal Ahmad alias Abu Waqas son of Ghulamm Mohammad Teli of Tuldan Shopian, North Kashmir. He claimed that a hand grenade was recovered from the possession of the militant, who was on his way to Lolab Kupwara from Shopian.

Meanwhile, a top police officer of Doda district in Kashmir claimed that three new recruits of Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba were arrested by police during different raids.

He identified the arrested persons as Gulshan Ahmad Magray, Manzoor Ahmad Wani and Nisar Ahmad Parry.

“The questioning of the arrested persons is on now”, he said.