A Terror funding module being set up by the pro-Pakistan Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror outfit was busted in Jammu by the joint team of security forces on Monday.
The terror module was being activated in Jammu to launch fresh terror strikes across Jammu region.
Inspector General of Police, Jammu range Mukesh Singh Monday said,
“The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the J&K Police and Army has busted a terror funding module of the LeT”.
Singh said, “a banned terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had activated a module for carrying out terror activities in Jammu & Kashmir particularly in the Jammu region and in furtherance to this, a delivery of funds was to take place in Jammu”.
He said on receipt of this information, a team of SOG Jammu and Peer Mitha Police apprehended one Mubashir Bhat, son of Farooq Ahmed Bhat, a native of Sazan Doda, who is a part of the same module and had been tasked by the handlers from across (the border) to visit Jammu and collect a consignment of Hawala money for further use by the terrorists and their supporters.
During the search operation, one bag containing Rs1.5 lakh rupees which was concealed in a tiffin box was recovered, he said.
Initial questioning revealed that the money was sent by Haroon, a self styled commander of LeT from Pakistan to be delivered to the terrorists through their overground workers in Doda.
Singh said, “a case has been registered in Peer Mitha Police Station under section 17, 18, 20, 21, 38 and 40 of UAP Act 1967 and further investigation of the case is going on to unearth it’s linkages, modus operandi etc”.