J&K POLICE GET REMAND OF BIHAR YOUTH HELD FOR SUPPLYING ARMS TO TERRORIST

PATNA: A Patna court Wednesday granted six days’ transit remand of the youth from Saran district arrested earlier for supplying arms to terrorists to the Jammu and Kashmir police.

Mohammad Javed (25), son of retired schoolteacher Mahfuj Ansari, was detained by a joint team of Bihar ATS and Jammu Kashmir police from his native Deo-Bahuara village in Saran district late Monday night.

He was produced before the court of first-class judicial magistrate Roji on Wednesday.

“This case pertains to a Jammu. Police prayed for transit remand. The court allowed the prayer and has granted transit remand till February 23. The arrested person has to be produced before the Jammu court on or before February 23,” said a lawyer, adding that the J&K police have alleged that Javed supplied six pistols to a terrorist.

Sources said all six pistols, of 7.65 mm, were manufactured in Munger, which is notorious for illegal firearms.

In October 2016, Bangladesh had already alleged that the weapons used in the Holey Artisan bakery attack that killed 20 foreigners, including an Indian girl, were sourced from across the border.

The country’s counterterrorism and transnational crime chief, Monirul Islam, had even mentioned Munger in this connection.

Thereafter, Bihar police had launched an investigation into the matter.

The arrest of Javed has once again brought the spotlight on Munger.

Munger, around 100 kms from Patna, has been infamous for manufacturing, assembling, repairing and selling all kinds of weapons, from small arms to AK-47 and AK-57 assault rifles.