The Free Press Journal

JeM worker arrested at Delhi airport

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Amost-

wanted overground worker of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist outfit was arrested on Friday at the Indira Gandhi Internatio­nal Airport in Delhi after his deportatio­n from Qatar, police said in Srinagar. Muneeb Ahmad Sofi, a resident of Bijbehara in south Kashmir's Anantnag, was arrested by a Kulgam police team, the police Tweeted. Sofi was a militant associate or overground worker (OGW) for Pakistani militant Waleed Bhai killed in an encounter in Kulgam last year. "Today a police party from Kulgam has arrested a most wanted terrorist associate, Muneeb Ahmad Sofi...linked with proscribed JeM from IGI Airport, Delhi after his deportatio­n from Qatar,” a police spokesman said.

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