“The Da Lakhvi Code” continues ……

He was impressed with Pramod’s professional enthusiasm and his wide knowledge of crime and criminals.

He showed Pramod a diary recovered from one of the slain terrorists, killed in an encounter with a BSF team under his command. Amongst the many diary entries that he saw, the ACP took a mental note of an email address scribbled innocuously on the last page.

The Special Cell of the Delhi Police was founded in 1986 in the wake of rising terrorism in the country. Delhi, being the national capital and seat of government, was always in the cross hairs of terror groups. Any attack here was bound to attract worldwide attention and huge international publicity. Fighting terrorism was the raison d’être of the cell, which had evolved over the years into an elite unit of the Delhi Police with many commendable successes to its credit.

It had also proved to be a scourge for interstate organized criminal gangs. It had cracked several sensational cases such as the terror attack on the Indian Parliament House on 13 December 2001 that left fourteen dead (including five terrorists). This was believed to be a joint operation of two terror outfits based in Pakistan, namely, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). It also handled the Red Fort terror attack case of 22 December 2000, in which two army men and one civilian were killed; busted many cells of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Indian Mujahideen (IM), LeT, JeM and Babbar Khalsa; arrested numerous interstate gangsters such as Fazl-ur-Rehman, Munna Bajrangi, Brajesh Singh, Sher Singh (accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case) and O.P. Singh, and so on.

Undeniably, it had proven to be the nemesis of terror groups and organized criminal gangs that were planning to make Delhi the target of their operations.

To be continued ......