Gandhinagar: Several youths from Gujarat are undergoing "training" to foment large-scale terrorist activities including assassination of top political leaders, the state legislative Assembly was informed on September 9.

This has emerged during the interrogation of persons associated with some terrorist groups arrested recently by the Gujarat Police, Minister of State for Home Amit Shah said during the Question hour.

However, when a member sought to know the details of two persons arrested from Jammu and Kashmir in this connection recently, Shah said as the case is highly sensitive and investigations are still on, the details cannot be divulged.

Leader of Opposition Amarsingh Chaudhary said instead of making random arrest the police should be given special training to nab only those people who harbour nefarious designs of fomenting terrorist activities.

The minister however, argued that the process of tracing the guilty is complex and all those persons who provide logistic support to such elements need to be questioned.

PTI