Gandhinagar: Security agencies have laid bare a conspiracy to create disturbances in Gujarat on Independence Day with arrest of a Lashkar-e-Toiba activist in Kutch district on August 4, police sources said.

Mohammed Maqbool, the LeT activist, was carrying an identity card, which identified him as "Bashir", a resident of Delhi, sources said.

Hailing from Punjab province in Pakistan, Maqbool had entered the country via Jammu and has confessed of a plan to create disturbances in Gujarat on the Independence Day, sources said.

The LeT activist said he was one of the members of the eight-member group which had come to Kutch district and that all others, who were carrying RDX and hand grenades, have crossed back to Pakistan, sources added.

Maqbool was caught from Kotda falling under Khavda police station of Kutch while he was trying to return to Pakistan from the district.

PTI