Anti-Terror Move Results Another Arrest

  • 15-Feb-2021
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JK Police arrests a Nursing student in a Chandigarh college, connected with a floated terror outfit. A law student and wife of a militant commander from Shopian are among key arrests made over the last five days after a “major” terror plot to target Jammu on the second anniversary of the Pulwama attack was foiled. 

The latest action, which also includes the seizure of a “powerful” IED, follows the arrest on February 6 of Lashkar-e-Mustafa chief Hidyatullah Malik in Jammu. DGP Dilbagh Singh said Malik had conducted a recce of the office in Delhi of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and sent the video to his handlers in Pakistan.

He also said that Jaish-e-Mohammad, which was behind the Pulwama attack, had been trying to create a terror network in Jammu and identify targets in Delhi.

According to police, those arrested since Friday include Malik’s wife Seeba, an LLM student of Kashmir University; TRF chief Zahoor Rather who is allegedly behind the killing of three BJP workers in Kulgam and a policeman in Kokernag; Al Badr supporter and nursing student Suhail Bashir Shah, who hails from Pulwama; and another Chandigarh student from Pulwama, Qazi Wasim.

 

IGP (Jammu zone) Mukesh Singh said, J&K Police’s Special Operation Group arrested Shah on Saturday night after spotting him moving “under suspicious circumstances” on BC Road in Jammu. Police seized an IED weighing around 7 kg from his bag. He had come here from Chandigarh to carry out the attack on February 14, which is the second anniversary of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack. 

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