Following the discovery of a video featuring terrorist Farhatullah Ghori urging India’s sleeper cells to launch attacks on trains throughout the nation, intelligence services in the country are on high alert.Farhatullah Ghori is planning for the big train attack in India. According to the sources that Ghori is a wanted terrorist now living in Pakistan. He used a sleeper cell and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to plan the explosion at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe. In the video, Ghori—who has been under surveillance by Indian authorities for years—calls on sleeper groups to bring down India’s railway system. He describes the many pressure cooker bomb blasting techniques.Ghori also discusses intentions to attack Hindu leaders and India’s petroleum pipelines. He claims that by using the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to target the properties of sleeper groups, the Indian government is weakening them. However, we’ll be back and we’ll rock the administration,” Ghori can be heard stating in the footage. Sources from intelligence services claim that the video was posted on Telegram approximately three weeks ago.
Rameshwaram cafe blast
At least 10 people were injured in the Rameshwaram blast on March 1. The NIA took over the case on March 3, had on April 12. NIA arrested two key accused, Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib. While Taahaa was the mastermind, Shazib had allegedly placed the IED at the popular cafe. They were arrested from a lodge near Kolkata, where they were staying under assumed identities. The two are allegedly members of the Islamic State (IS) module based in Karnataka’s Shivamogga. Shariq is a member of the same module. He had carried out a blast in Mangaluru in November 2022.Farhatullah Ghori and his son-in-law Shahid Faisal have a strong network of sleeper cells in south India. Faisal was in touch with both the accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast, and was the handler in the case.
Who is Farhatullah Ghori
Farhatullah Ghori aliases for Abu Sufiyan, Sardar Sahab, and Faru. He has been connected to a number of high-profile incidents, such as the 2002 attack on Gujarat’s Akshardham Temple. It left over 30 people dead and 80 injured. He was also responsible for the 2005 suicide assault on the Hyderabad Task Force office. Delhi Police claimed last year that Ghori is running an internet jihadist recruitment operation after apprehending three of the most wanted terrorists from Uttar Pradesh and the nation’s capital, respectively. They disclosed that Ghori was the terrorists’ handler. Following the nationwide arrest of other terrorists affiliated with the Pune-ISIS module, Delhi Police officially recorded Ghori’s name a few months ago.
