Delhi Police Special Cell Arrests Suspected JeM Terrorist Carrying Rs 2 Lakh Reward

An interrogation of Basir Ahmad is underway and a further investigation has been initiated.

JeM terrorist Basir Ahmad has been arrested by Delhi Police/ Image: ANI

New Delhi: A suspected member of terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed has been arrested from Srinagar by Delhi Police, the officials said on Tuesday. According to Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, the terrorist has been identified as Basir Ahamad, carrying a reward of Rs 2 lakh. Interrogation of Basir Ahmad is underway and a further investigation has been initiated.

Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested JeM terrorist Basir Ahmad from Jammu & Kashmir's Srinagar. Police has announced a reward of Rs 2 lakh on his arrest. pic.twitter.com/IFbaJaGnew

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Delhi Police arrested two of Ahmad’s accomplices earlier this year, in a case of year 2007. Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistan based terror outfit which aims at disintegrating Kashmir from India. UN proscribed terrorist Masood Azhar laid the foundation of the organization in the year 2000. At present Azhar’s brother Abdul Rauf Asghar  heads the organistaion.  In 2001, Jaish was declared as a terror outfit by the United States. The outfit carried out a dastardly attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on February14 in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. The attack and its aftermaths snowballed into the biggest bilateral tension between India and Pakistan.