The Delhi Police Special Cell interrogated the six suspected operatives after their arrests and revealed the alleged conspiracy to carry out petrol bomb attacks at key locations in the national capital on the directions of Pakistan-based alleged ISI handler Shahzad Bhatti.

KPS Gill, IPS officer and former DGP of Punjab, led Operation Black Thunder and anti-militancy drives in the 1980s-90s. Hailed as a ‘supercop’, he faced human rights allegations.

The incident had occurred on Monday at the Shastri Nagar Hospital, run by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) in Dombivli area. Police had registered a case against Mhatre and five others on Tuesday.