LeT group planning something ‘big’ busted
Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday claimed that it has busted a financing network of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) after arresting six of its operatives. “The group was planning something big and spectacular,” a senior police officer claimed.
Inspector General of Police (Jammu range) Mukesh Singh identified the accused as Mudasir Farooq Bhat, Tauqeer Ahmad Bhat, Asif Bhat,
Khalid Latif Bhat, Gazi Iqbal and Tariq Hussain Mir. Mr Singh claimed that all the accused were working for Mohammad Amin Bhat alias Haroon alias Khubeb, also a resident Doda “who is an LeT cadre trained in Pakistan in 1997 and is currently operating from there.”
“After being imparted arms training in Pakistan in 1997, Haroon had returned to Doda,” the IGP said.
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Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday claimed that it has busted a financing network of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) after arresting six of its operatives. “The group was planning something big and spectacular,” a senior police officer claimed.
Inspector General of Police (Jammu range), Mukesh Singh, identified the accused as Mudasir Farooq Bhat, Tauqeer Ahmad Bhat, Asif Bhat, Khalid Latif Bhat, Gazi Iqbal and Tariq Hussain Mir. He told reporters in winter capital that some time ago the police authorities received information that a “terror financing network” is operating in Jammu following which J&K police counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) detained Mudasir Farooq, a resident of Doda district, for questioning. “After it was established that he was associated with a LeT financing network he was formally arrested,” he said.
The police officer claimed that the police confiscated a tiffin box containing `150, 000 on July 19 and that during further investigations and interrogation of Mudasir it was revealed that five more persons are also part of this group. They too were subsequently arrested and a case has been registered against them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.”
Mr Singh claimed that all the accused were working for Mohammad Amin Bhat alias Haroon alias Khubeb, also a resident Doda “who is an LeT cadre trained in Pakistan in 1997 and is currently operating from that country only”.
The IGP said, “After being imparted arms training in Pakistan in 1997, Haroon returned to Doda where he was involved in LeT’s terror activities. He then went back to Pakistan in 2006.