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J&K Police Busts Terror Module That Helped Cross-Border Infiltrations. Kingpin, 8 Operatives Arrested

J&K News: Police claimed that they have busted a terror module that aided the recent infiltration of Pakistani terrorists and arrested nine terror operatives.

J&K News: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have said that they have busted a module of nine terror operatives who were responsible for playing a crucial role in aiding the recent infiltration of Pakistani terrorists from the Samba-Kathua sector and the subsequent attacks in Doda, Udhampur, and Kathua distraicts, news agency ANI reported on Tuesday.

A total of nine members of the module were taken into custody, including the kingpin. Since June, the Jammu region has been witnessing back-to-back terror attacks.

After a successful operation in Gandoh resulting in the killing of three foreign terrorists, and based on intelligence leads provided by central agencies followed by an investigation by police, a module, apparently the main one, behind the recent infiltration that has resulted in increased terrorist activities and terrorist movements in the upper reaches of Doda, Udhampur, and Kathua has come to be exposed, Jammu and Kashmir Police said, as reported by news agency ANI.

According to ANI, the kingpin of the module was identified to be Mohd Lateef, alias Haji Lateef, and eight other members of the module have been taken into custody as enemy agents - Akhter Ali, Saddam, Kushal, Noorani, Maqbool, Liaquat, Kasim Din, and Khadim, the police said.

Briefing about the module, the J&K Police said that the kingpins of the module, in active collusion with terrorist handlers across the border, played a crucial role in receiving the foreign terrorists after their illegal and surreptitious entry into India in the Samba-Kathua sector.

The police further stated that the module, besides providing initial shelter, food, and other minor logistics, was also responsible for guiding them. to the upper reaches of the mountains and jungles of Udhampur-Kathua-Doda districts around Kailash mountain, which is at the center of the tri-junction of these three districts.

The members of the module have confirmed that the three terrorists killed at the Gandoh encounter had taken the help of the module in hiding and travelling without being detected until they reached the upper reaches, they added.

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