SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police’s counter-intelligence wing on Tuesday dismantled a recruitment module of Tehreek-Labaik-Ya-Muslim (TLM), a newly shaped terrorist outfit believed to be an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), following raids at 10 areas throughout seven districts.
In line with an announcement by Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), a Pakistani LeT handler going by the alias of ‘Baba Hamas’ was working the module that was actively concerned in mobilising, radicalising and recruiting the youths of Kashmir for terror actions, via social media and different means.
The operation got here two days after the lethal terror assault at Gagangir in Ganderbal district that left seven individuals useless. Officers stated Tuesday that greater than 40 suspects had been rounded up for questioning as a part of investigation. Nevertheless, a senior police officer stated nobody had been arrested but for Sunday’s assault at a tunnel building website, for which The Resistance Entrance, an offshoot of LeT, had claimed accountability.
The searches by counter intelligence groups had been carried out at areas in Srinagar, Pulwama, Anantnag, Ganderbal, Bandipora, Kulgam and Budgam districts following a warrant issued by a particular NIA courtroom in Srinagar in reference to a case registered in June 2023 beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act. Incriminating materials and digital units, together with laptops, cell phones and SIM playing cards, had been seized in the course of the raids, officers stated.
The case pertains to a bigger conspiracy hatched by banned terrorist organisations working inside J&Okay and throughout the Line of Management on the behest of Pakistani businesses, in connivance with their over floor employees (OGWs), supporters, facilitators and sympathisers, to additional terrorist actions in Kashmir.
Officers stated the terrorist handler, ‘Baba Hamas’, was offering seditious materials and instructions to OGWs/facilitators via varied encrypted social media functions to radicalise the youths and lure them to hitch the TLM ranks. The module was in fixed contact with handlers throughout the border via encrypted web messaging platforms.
The newly floated outfit is believed to be behind a hearth incident at a panchayat ghar in Pulwama and different suspicious actions. It is usually suspected to be concerned in pasting posters glorifying terrorist acts at varied areas in south and central Kashmir, in a bid to encourage the youth to hitch this outfit.
(With inputs from businesses)
