In a counter-intelligence operation, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handler accused of orchestrating terror plots in India while operating from Bangladesh was arrested from east Delhi’s Ghazipur area after a month-long chase, the police said on Monday.The accused, Shabbir Ahmad Lone (43), alias Raja, alias Kashmiri, a resident of Kangan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district, is alleged to be the main conspirator behind a LeT module busted last month by the Special Cell, in which seven Bangladeshi nationals were arrested.A Delhi court on Monday sent Lone to five-day police custody. Judicial Magistrate Vijayshree Rathore allowed the police’s plea seeking custodial interrogation.The module came to light following a complaint filed on February 8 by a CISF shift in-charge at the Supreme Court Metro police station regarding pro-Pakistan and pro-terror posters found at Janpath Metro Station.Addressing the media, Additional Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah said Lone had entered India via the Nepal border and was preparing to recruit individuals for LeT on the directions of Pakistan-based handlers.The police said Lone had earlier been arrested in 2007 along with Sajjad Gul with a cache of arms and ammunition, including an AK-47 rifle, and remained lodged in Tihar Jail until 2016.Gul later moved to Pakistan and is now associated with The Resistance Front, an LeT offshoot.According to the police, Lone was exposed to LeT operatives in 2004-05 in his locality and was later recruited into the group. After re-establishing contact with handlers in 2016 through encrypted applications, he allegedly began radicalising and recruiting youth.He is also suspected to have crossed into Bangladesh to set up a base in Saidpur, from where he coordinated activities. Investigators said the anti-national posters found in Delhi and Kolkata were sent by a Pakistan-based handler and were used to test new recruits’ operational capabilities.The police said the module shows similarities with a “white terror module” uncovered in November last year by multiple agencies, shortly before a blast near the Red Fort.Officials believe Lone was planning terror attacks in India using Bangladeshi nationals, targeting crowded areas and pilgrimage sites.