Maharashtra’s Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative from Dapodi area of Pune.
Identifying the arrest LeT suspect as Junaid Mohammed, the ATS officials that Junaid had been touch with a Kashmir-based terrorist outfit “Gajvate Al Hind”, owing allegiance to LeT, through social media. He was receiving funds from the terrorist outfit.
A resident of Khamgaon town in Buldhana district, Junaid (28) had been living in Pune for the past one and a half years. He was on the ATS’ radar for the past eight days. After establishing that he was reportedly active and linked to the LeT’s terror networks in Jammu & Kashmir and abroad, through certain social media platforms, the ATS sleuths arrested Junaid from Dapodi locality in Pune in the early hours of Tuesday.
Junaid was to be produced by the ATS before a designated Special Court in Pune later in the afternoon.
Junaid’s name had cropped during the investigations in a terror funding case by the ATS. The ATS took Junaid into custody after after it found evidence to suggest that he had received Rs 10,000 for his alleged terrorist activities from a terrorist outfit in Jammu and Kashmir
The investigations have revealed that Junaid had changed his mobile phones on several occasions to remain undetected on social media platforms by the probe agencies. He had reportedly participated in several terror-related discussions on social media, official sources said.
Junaid is also alleged to be in touch with some extremists in Pakistan. The ATS is investigating the allegation.