Srinagar, July 10 : Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested an Uttar Pradesh resident who was allegedly an active member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group that killed an SHO and five other police personnel in South Kashmir, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Munir Khan said on Monday.
“We have busted a module involved in a series of sensational crimes, including terror crimes in south Kashmir,” he said.
“Two individuals Sandeep Kumar Sharma alias Adil, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, and Muneeb Shah, a resident of Kulgam in south Kashmir were arrested.”
Some new things as far as militancy in Kashmir is concerned have come to the surface during investigations into the looting of banks and ATMs, he said.
“Investigations have revealed the angle of criminals who are involved in militancy and how they are being used by militant outfit LeT, how they are plundering and looting the banks and ATMs and funding militant outfits as well as themselves,” he said.
Sandeep was nabbed from the same house where Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Bashir Lashkari was killed on July 1. His arrest led to the arrest of Muneeb Shah.
“We apprehended Sandeep during the encounter in which notorious terrorist Lashkari was eliminated. It raised the fingers of suspicion. We were surprised to see a non-local sitting in the same house where Lashkari was taking shelter, so we decided to go further.” (CNS)
