Attempt to revive LeT in Sopore thwarted: Police

Police on Monday said it thwarted a design for revival of Lashkar-e-Toiab militant outfit in Sopore town of north Kashmir by arresting six persons and recovering arms and ammunition from their possession.

A police official indentified the arrested persons asAhtisham Farooq, Shafqat Ali, Nissar Ahmad Ganaie and Musadiq Hussain Bhat –all residents of Sopore and Sharafat Khan and Kabeer Khan – both from Kupwara.

   

A police official said after receiving inputs about somepersons planning to deliver arms and ammunition at Sopore, a joint team ofpolice, army, CRPF raided a place near sub district hospital Sopore andarrested the four persons from the town.

The seized arms andammunition included six AK-74 rifles, 2 AK-47 rifles, 89 hand grenades, 21detonator fuses, 10 pistols, 16 pistol magazines, 351 pistol rounds, 25 AKmagazines and 750 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, police said.

“One pistol and 12 grenades were recovered from persons arrestedfrom Sopore” said SSP Sopore, Javed Iqbal.

“After their sustained interrogation, the four personsrevealed they are in contact with a Pakistan based LeT handler, whose job is torecruit youths in militancy and revive LeT in Sopore,” said the official.

He said the arrested youth disclosed they received armsconsignment from one person, identified as Kabeer Lone from Keran area ofKupwara.

“Based on the information Kabeer lone was arrested whodisclosed name of another person, Sharafat Khan of Keran Kupwara who wasarrested by the joint team,” said the official.

He said the arrest of the two person from Kupwara led torecovery of arms and ammunition including six AK-74 rifles, two AK-47 rifles,25 magazines, 750 rounds, nine pistols, pistol magazines 16, 351 rounds ofpistol, 77 grenades, 21 detonator fuse and four bags” said SSP Iqbal.

 “This huge haul ofarms and ammunition was meant to revive the LeT across Sopore. The coordinatedefforts of police and security forces thwarted their designs” said the SSP.

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