Jammu, Jul 2 : The police has busted a terror module of banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and arrested one terrorist with an active Over Ground Worker (OGW) in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
“A module of HM was busted on Sunday while cache of arms and ammunition were also recovered from the duo,” Abrar Ahmed, SSP Kishtwar here said.
He said police has been working since many days to crack the terror module of banned outfit Hizbul Mujahideen aimed at revival of the militancy in the district and creating scare and terror among the public by lobbing grenades. It has launched a manhunt to effect more arrests.
“After authentication of its field information, ‘naka’ points were laid at a couple of places in the vicinity of Kishtwar town and during checking, police intercepted a Hizbul militant about whom police had information of ferrying the arms and explosive to his mentor and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Amin Bhat, alias Jehangir Saroori and to induct the fresh youth into the militancy,” said the SSP.
He said that on searching, police recovered from his possession a Chinese pistol with magazine and live pistol cartridges and two high power HE hand grenades, beside some documents of the terrorist outfit.
“He was arrested on the spot and arms and ammunition recovered from his custody has been seized,” said Mr Chowdhary adding, “the arrested terrorist has been identified as Rameez Ahmed Wani, resident of Tandar Dachan”.
Based on the disclosure of the arrested terrorist, police conducted raids and arrested one active OGW Nissar Ahmed Ganie, a resident of Amratgarh, Tehsil Charala of district Doda and at present residing in Deewaro Link Road Kishtwar.
“During the sustained interrogation of Nissar, police has recovered three magazines of AK-47 rifle from his possession along with 90 live rounds of AK-47 rifle,” the SSP added.
“Nissar Ahmed Ganie OGW had assumed a ‘moulvi’ type of attire and was running a ‘Madrasa’ in Kishtwar town by the name Darul-Uloom Usmania since the year 2013. On the premises of ‘madrasa’ he had established his office and under the garb and guise of madrasa manager and teacher he was continuing his OGW activities,” said the SSP.
“During the sustained interrogation of the arrested Hizb militant and OGW, it was further ascertained that they were under the instructions from their mentor and Hizbul Mujahdien terrorist Jehangir Saroori to lob grenade at busy localities in the district to create scare and fear psychosis among the public,” he added. By arresting the culprits and recovering arms from their possession, police has averted a major tragedy in the district,” said Mr Ahmed.
During interrogation, Rameez further disclosed that he had motivated and sent three more youth in the jungles of Dachhan for joining the terror group. “All the three youths were missing from Dachhan after Friday prayers on June 29 and after the disclosures of Rameez, police constituted several teams and launched manhunt in the forests of Sounder and Tandar and finally recovered them on June 30.”
The police has launched a manhunt to effect certain more arrests beside the recovery of some more arms and ammunition shortly, said the SSP.
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