New Delhi: Police and other security agencies in Delhi have been put on high alert and raids are being conducted at several places following an intelligence input that a six-member suicide squad of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) had sneaked into the national capital to carry out a strike around Christmas or the New Year Eve.

The alert comes even as the security agencies are hunting for a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist who managed to escape while his two associates were gunned down by Delhi police in an encounter in Tughlaqabad area in South Delhi on December 14.

The terrorists, all Pakistanis, have been identified as Abu Zarar (leader), Abu Farkan, Ali Mohammad, Ejazul Haq, Nissar-u-din and Mohd Salim alias Khalil, police sources said.

All the terrorists are in their 20s or 30s, they said.

Zarar, said to be hailing from Lahore, was recently involved in an attack on police in Srinagar, the sources said.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Neeraj Kumar confirmed that intelligence inputs had suggested presence of terrorists in the capital but refused to share details.

"We are on an alert to thwart any terrorist strike and working to foil that," he said.

The JeM terrorists might be looking for a crowded place or aiming to target some VIP, the sources said.

Police, with the help of intelligence agencies, is also hunting for the LeT terrorist who fled during the Tughlaqabad encounter. The terrorist is believed to be a local contact of the two Pakistani terrorists who were killed in the encounter.

Efforts are also being make to establish the identity of the slain terrorists.

PTI