new delhi a jammu kashmir resident accused by police of being a lashkaretaiba terrorist has been acquitted by a tis hazari court for lack of evidence additional sessions judge s s rathi on saturday acquitted mukhtar after the special cell of delhi police failed to prove the case against him of setting up a base for let in the capital on the command of its leader abu alqama according to police in 2007 it received intelligence alerts that on alqamas orders a man was being sent from jammu and kashmir to the capital to expand operations set up sleeper cells and a major base for terrorist operations in the first week of june police claimed in the chargesheet sources tipped them off that the name of the militant was mukhtar and he was staying in the jama masjid area however before cops could pick him up the trail went cold a few days later police claimed it received another tipoff that mukhtar was once again on his way to delhi with arms and explosives meant to be handed over to one shabbir police claimed that on june 12 2007 they nabbed mukhtar from old delhi and found he was carrying more than one kg of explosives with detonators mukhtar allegedly admitted being a let operative and spilled the beans on future attacks planned in the capital his lawyer m s khan accused cops of framing an innocent man he said his client had come to the capital to take the delhilahore bus to go to pakistan to meet his relatives a court acquitted mukhtar after cops failed to prove that the accused had come to delhi to set up a lashkar base