Monday, August 15 2005 19:52 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Strict vigil mounted for the Independence Day celebrations in the city resulted in detention of eight people on suspicion of being militants but they turned out to be Bangladeshi Hindus returning from the Amarnath pilgrimage.

They were detained at the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station when a holiday special train arrived from Jammu and the Bangladeshi nationals alighted from it, informed sources said. After joint interrogation by security agencies, it was found that all those detained were actually Bangladeshi Hindus who had gone on a pilgrimage to Amarnath, the sources said.

Embarrassed Delhi Police officials are understood to have told their counterparts in the central agencies that they had acted on an intelligence input that militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad might try to sneak into the national capital in the guise of 'sadhus'.