Jammu & Kashmir police on Saturday claimed to have busted a terror financing network of Lashkar-e- Tayyeba (LeT) active in the Jammu region for a long time.
A total number of five suspects, working for a Pakistan based LeT handler, were paraded by the police in front of media persons.
Police also claimed these suspects had recently shared images of Northern Command headquarters located in Udhampur and locations of different army camps in Uri to their handlers operating from Pakistan.
It is learnt that all five of them were arrested by the police earlier and were being interrogated to track down the foot prints of several others actively involved in the terror module.
Briefing selected media persons, Mukesh Singh, Inspector General of Police Jammu range said, “The LeT terror module was busted on the basis of sustained interrogation of a Doda based B.Sc student, Mubashir
Farooq Batt, arrested on July 19, 2020”. Batt was studying in Kharar near Chandigarh and was apprehended by the Special operations group of J&K police with a consignment of 1.5 lac concealed in a tiffin box.
IG, Jammu said so far they have arrested a Moulvi Toqeer Ahmad resident of Doda, a surrendered terrorist and former SPO Aif Batt, Khalid Latief, a contractor, a Chicken shop worker Gazi Iqbal from Doda, a owner of a Karyana shop Tariq Hussain from Doda.
Singh said, a former district commander of LeT identified as Haroon hailing from Thathri area of Doda was in touch with these people and had tasked them to provide logistics/financial support to set up a network of LeT in Jammu region.
“Haroon is currently operating from Pakistan”. According to police records he exfiltrated to Pakistan in 2007, Singh added.
Referring to their role in the terror module Singh said, “these local recruits were tasked to rope in more youth to widen the terror network, carry out recee of vital security installations,sharing in
formation about presence of security forces and their important locations to Pak handlers,Transportation of Arms & Ammunition from one location to another and distributing money among the families of active and deceased terrorists”. He said during their interrogation so far it has been revealed that they had shared images of Northern Command headquarters and locations of army camps in Uri to their handlers operating from Pakistan.
Inspector General Mukesh Singh also claimed, “during questioning of all above 06 arrested persons it has surfaced that they received money amounting to Rs 12,19,704 through different means on different occasions as part of this module. They were also instrumental in recruiting Abid Ahmed Bhat (LeT) S/O Waliya Bhat R/O Sazan, Doda( Now Killed) and Jamal Din (LeT) R/O Doda ( Now Surrendered).
Singh said, during their interrogation involvement of four accused from Kashmir has also surfaced. Moreover it has also come to notice that the module has its links in other parts of the country, he added.