Centre Declares Laskhar's Offshoot ‘The Resistance Front’ As ‘Terrorist’ Organisation Under UAPA

The home ministry said that the TRF's activities are detrimental to India's national security and sovereignty as many cases have been registered against the members and associates of this outfit.

File Photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Source : PTI

Srinagar: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday declared militant outfit The Resistance Front (TRF), which the Jammu and Kashmir Police say is an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), as a “terrorist” organisation. In its order, the MHA stated the TRF is recruiting youth through online mediums for the furtherance of terrorist activities and it has been involved in carrying out propaganda on terror activities. 

It said TRF is involved in the recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists, and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.

“TRF is involved in psychological operations on social media platforms for inciting people of Jammu and Kashmir to join terrorist outfits against Indian State and Sheikh Sajjad Gul is a Commander of The TRF and has been designated as a terrorist under the fourth schedule of the said Act,” the order read.

The home ministry also said that the TRF's activities are detrimental to India's national security and sovereignty as many cases have been registered against the members and associates of this outfit.

It added the central government believes that the outfit is involved in terrorism and that it has committed and participated in various acts of terrorism in India. 

“The TRF came into existence in the year 2019 as a proxy outfit of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a proscribed organisation listed at serial number 5 of the first schedule under the said Act,” it said.

The home ministry said Sheikh Sajjad Gul is a commander of The Resistance Front and has been designated as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967.

Mohammed Amin Declared Individual Terrorist

The government also designated Mohammed Amin alias Abu Khubaib, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir but currently lives in Pakistan, as an individual terrorist.

He is acting as the launching commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba and has developed a deep association with cross-border agencies and is playing a vital role to revive and accelerate terrorist activities of LeT in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.

Khubaib has been involved in coordinating terrorist attacks, supply of arms or weapons and explosives, and terror financing in Jammu and Kashmir from across the border.

For all his terror activities, the government designated Khubaib as an individual terrorist under the UAPA, another notification mentioned.

(With PTI Inputs)