J-Enough: Maharashtra ATS arrests man in Kishtwar for alleged ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba
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| Edited By: Aayushi |Updated: Jun 02, 2022, 11: 33 PM IST
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police on Thursday arrested a man from Kashmir for his alleged hyperlinks with Junaid Mohammed, accused of getting hyperlinks with apprehension outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), acknowledged ATS on Thursday. For the final few days, three teams of ATS were conducting searches and making enquiries at diversified areas in Kargil, Ganderbal, and Srinagar areas in coordination with the native district police. The actual person used to be arrested at some stage in the investigation of Junaid Muhammad who used to be arrested by ATS from Pune.
On Wednesday night time, a crew of Maharashtra ATS, 28-years-former Aftab Hussain Shah from Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Shah is accused of being the link between Junaid Mohammed and a LeT operative based entirely mostly in a foreign nation. Shah used to be produced before the competent court of that jurisdiction and he used to be handed over to ATS, Maharashtra on three days transit remand. He will seemingly be produced before the competent court for police custody on his arrival in Maharashtra. Accused Aftab Hussain Shah used to be born and brought up in Kishtwar. He is a chippie by occupation and owns land in Kishtwar.
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The 28-12 months-former accused Mohammad Junaid, as per the Maharashtra ATS is an Indian national, residing in Pune and used to be linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) apprehension network. “The crew has bought some records about Junaid`s hyperlinks with the phobia organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. ATS also recorded the assertion of his relatives,” acknowledged ATS. In response to an ATS official, Junaid used to be in contact with lively participants of LeT Kashmir and used to be attempting to recruit childhood for the banned organisation from diversified sides of the declare.
“Later these recruits were taken to Jammu and Kashmir for practising, to conduct terrorist activities.”The official educated of a transaction between Junaid and the LeT. “Prima facie investigation revealed that Junaid used to be also attempting to disturb the Nationwide security and communal solidarity and attempting to originate a non secular rift amongst communities by posting diversified feedback etc by diversified social media love Fb and WhatsApp etc,” the ATS acknowledged. Junaid has been booked below sections 153A (attacks upon the religion, flee, etc), 121A (conspiring to commit obvious offences against the State), 116 (bribing public servant) and loads of relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
As per the ATS, Junaid used to be the usage of 10 SIM playing cards. “All these SIM playing cards were worn to work together and coordinate with whom the quit bosses for practising in J-Enough and straightforward systems to proceed additional.” He destroyed the total SIM playing cards after the usage of them. Junaid`s suspicious feature had emerged at some stage in the operation in Jammu and Kashmir for 3 months, for which he had shifted from Akola to Pune. To this level, the ATS has known three handlers of LeT at some stage in the investigation, an official acknowledged.
