J&K Police: Plan to revive LeT in Reasi busted

The 3 arrested were receiving finances from their handler in Pakistan, police mentioned, including that some benami transactions in several financial institution accounts have additionally been detected. (Document)

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday arrested 3 other people, together with a central authority faculty instructor, from Reasi district and mentioned that it has busted a big Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) plan to restore militancy within the district’s Mahore house.

Police recognized the arrested as schoolteacher Ghulam Hussain, Abdul Aziz and Ashfaq Ahmed — all citizens of Mahore tehsil — and mentioned that they had been involved with LeT’s Pakistan-based handler Mohammad Qasim.

The 3 arrested were receiving finances from their handler in Pakistan, police mentioned, including that some benami transactions in several financial institution accounts have additionally been detected. The police additionally mentioned that that they had recognized some households of slain militants who gained monetary assist from Pakistan’s Inter-Products and services Intelligence (ISI).

Qasim, a resident of Mahore, had crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 2002, a senior police officer mentioned, including that the involvement of a few extra suspects has been discovered all through investigations which might be in development, and that extra arrests had been most probably.

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