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Plan to revive terror in Jammu busted

Govt. employee among 3 OGWs arrested

Reasi, 31-August-2020

Security forces have busted a plan of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) based in Pakistan to revive its network in Jammu�s Reasi District and have arrested its three �overground workers�, police said on Monday.
These �overground workers� were in contact with their Pakistani handler (LeT) Mohd Qasim of Mahore who had exfiltrated to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2002, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Reasi, Rashmi Wazir said here.
The police and the Army have busted a major LeT revival plan in the Mahore area of Reasi district, and the three arrested �overground workers� include a government teacher, she said.
The SSP said information was received through reliable sources at Police Station Mahore that some unknown persons in the area were in touch with LeT terrorists based in Pakistan to revive the LeT in Mahore with the intention to wage war against the country and disturb the sovereignty and integrity of India.
Based on this information, a case was registered on August 5, and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate it, she said. During the course of the investigation, with the help of technical data analysis support from the Army and intelligence units working in Mahore area and interrogation of suspects by the SIT, it emerged that Mohd Qasim, who is working for the LeT across the border, is the mastermind behind the module, the SSP said.
She said Qasim was trying to establish a network of �overground workers� so that the LeT could utilise it to recruit from Mahore and adjoining areas, provide logistics support and establish an LeT base to facilitate the crossing of terrorists via various routes, including but not limited to Rajouri belt-Mahore-Nikin Gali to Kashmir via Kulgam area.
The three people arrested were identified as Ghulam Hussain of Kulwa Mulas, Abdul Aziz of Sildhar and Ashfaq Ahmed of Malan Bathoie, the SSP said. One of them is a government teacher, one is a shopkeeper and the other is a labourer, she said.
�The ISI handler wanted to use these people as guides and for logistic support in cases of infiltration. There are around 11 suspects in this case, including a woman in Jammu, who admitted to having met ISI handler Kasim in Pakistan and taking money from him�.
Giving more details, Wazir said those who were arrested included a government employee, a labourer and a shopkeeper. �We�ve verified some of their back accounts and detected some benami transactions. Some more persons will be arrested in this case. They were trying to lure family members of former terrorists,� said the Reasi SSP.
The investigation in this regard is in progress, the SSP said.