OPERATION VAJRA SHAKTI
On 24 September 2002, 2 armed attackers attacked Akshardham Temple complex at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. They killed xxx people in addition to injured to a greater extent than than 80.
National Security Guard intervened in addition to launched Operation Vajra Shakti to neutralise terrorists.
12 AKSHARDHAM ATTACK OR OPERATION VAJRA SHAKTI RELATED FACTS
- Three minutes after the gear upwards on began, Vishwa Vihari Swami, at the Akshardham Temple Complex, made an SOS telephone scream upwards to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's component in addition to informed them well-nigh the attack.
- Within minutes, Gandhinagar's district law main R.R.Brahmbhatt was dispatched to the scene. Additionally, the State Commando forcefulness was instructed to too larn inwards at the Akshardham Temple Complex.
- Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi called the Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani inwards Delhi in addition to asked for the National Security Guards (NSG), ordinarily referred to every bit Black Cat Commandos.
- National Security Guards intervened in addition to ended the siege yesteryear killing both attackers the same night.
- The National Security Guards were commencement inwards line, followed yesteryear men from the Rapid Action Force, Border Security Force, State Reserve Police in addition to the Anti-Terrorist Squad.
- Terrorists were betwixt the ages of twenty in addition to 25 carrying haversacks in addition to jackets filled amongst automatic weapons in addition to grenades.
- Six defendant were after arrested yesteryear Gujarat Police. In May 2014, a Supreme Court of Republic of Republic of India bench acquitted all the vi prisoners of all charges in addition to pulled upwards the Gujarat Police for shoddy investigation inwards the case.
- “The law tortured in addition to forced me to write the letters. They claimed the letters were flora from the pockets of the fidayeen killed during the attack. But the Supreme Court noticed that the letters were clean, non torn, or soiled/stained amongst blood or reason — which was highly unnatural in addition to improbable every bit the terrorists’ bodies were covered amongst blood in addition to mud, in addition to their clothe had multiple tears in addition to holes due to the bullets,” Mr. Qayyum recounted.
- According to Brigadier Raj Seethapathy, the gunmen carried letters inwards Urdu which affirmed their connector amongst an arrangement called Tehrik-E-Kasas or Movement for Revenge.
- The letters suggested that the gunmen carried out the gear upwards on "because they could non tolerate what happened to children, women in addition to Muslims during the Gujarat riots.
- Upon reading these letters, the officials believed that Tehrik-e-Kasas was formed specifically to avenge the Gujarat riots.
- In 2010, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) associate David Headley, who was arrested inwards connector amongst the 2008 Bombay attacks, reportedly confessed to the National Investigation Agency that an LeT militant named Muzammil planned in addition to conducted the Akshardham Temple attack.
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