Srinagar: Police, on Thursday, claimed to have busted a militant module by arresting seven militant associates in South Kashmir's Awantipora. In a statement, police said that in multiple raids Awantipora Police, along with Army and CRPF apprehended 6 youth identified as Aqib Ahmad Dobi of Tral, Mufeez Ahmad Zargar, Saifullah Ahmad Shah, Liyaqat Ahmad Khanday (alias Amir), Shoaib Ahmad Bhat and Bilal Ahmad Zaboo during different raids.
Police says that they were planning to join militant ranks. The arrested youth were motivated and indoctrinated by the militant associate and militant to join the militant ranks.
The said youth developed contact with the active militants in the said area for joining militancy by means of the militant associates (arrested by police).
Facts have been revealed by the arrested youth were motivated by Pakistan based self-styled militant commanders to join militancy and asked to establish contact with their ground cadre in Awantipora and Tral area, they said.
Moreover, Awantipora Police along with security forces busted militant module and arrested seven militant associates of outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad namely, Sajad Ahmad Sheikh of Pinglish Tral, Adil Hussain Sheikh of Tral-e-Bala, Mohammad Iqbal Baba resident of Tral-e-Bala, Yasir Amin Dar resident of Noorabad Tral-e-Bala, Showkat Ahmad Sheikh resident of Batagund Tral and Ubaid Ahmad Mir resident of Batagund Tral and Adil Rashid Bhat of ranzbal Tral,
for motivating youth to join the militant ranks. The arrested militant Associates are involved in providing logistics, shelter, transporting of arms/ammunition and other kinds of support to militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad in Tral and Awantipora areas, they said.
The arrested militant associates were in touch with PAK based self-style Commanders through different social media platforms. Incriminating material recovered from them, they said.
Consequent upon this Case FIR number 51/2021 stands registered in Police Station Tral under relevant sections of law, reads the statement.