Modi, Advani were on Lashkar's hitlist before Ishrat Jahan encounter

June 14, 2013 09:35

India Today reports: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani were among the leaders who were in the hitlist of the alleged terrorists killed in an encounter with Gujarat Police in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.

Headlines Today is in possession of the letter which was sent to Central Bureau of Investigation by the Intelligence Bureau, which mentions that LeT had instructed its cadres in India to monitor the movements of these leaders.

The letter written on February 13, 2013 also says that the IB had prior inputs about the threat to the senior BJP leaders including L K Advani, Narendra Modi, Praveen Togadia and then Shiv Sena chief late Bal Thackeray.

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