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A particular NIA court right here issued non-bailable warrants against 13 terrorists, hailing from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, who’re presently working from throughout the border, police stated on Thursday.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Kishtwar, Khalil Poswal stated the warrants have been issued in a terror-related case registered final 12 months underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act at police station Kishtwar.
The chief investigation officer of Kishtwar Police approached the particular NIA court for issuance of non-bailable warrants against the accused for his or her lively involvement in terror actions and creating unrest in the Chenab valley and different components of Jammu and Kashmir, he stated.
“After the eruption of terrorism in 1990, many terrorists were killed but one group comprising 36 members affiliated with Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), all residents of Kishtwar, were settled in different parts of Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir and engaged in disruptive activities,” the officer stated.
He stated two instances had been registered against them and in one of many instances, non-bailable open-ended warrants have been issued by the particular NIA court Jammu, whereas related motion is being taken against others as nicely in the approaching days.
“We are forwarding a red corner notice to Interpol and a process has also been initiated to identify their properties to get them sealed. Based on electronic and other evidence, we will pursue these two cases in the court of law and with the help of Interpol will arrest the terrorists and bring them back to face the law,” Mr. Poswal stated.
Besides luring the youth into militancy, the officer stated, the Pakistan-based terrorists mobilised sleeper cells and pushed them into J&Okay in connivance with secessionist and separatist leaders for waging warfare against the federal government of India with the nefarious design of seceding Jammu and Kashmir.
In close by Doda, police stated a complete of 118 terrorists belonging to completely different components of the district have exfiltrated into Pakistan and 10 amongst them are most lively and making steady makes an attempt to recruit youth into militancy and disturb peace in J&Okay.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Doda, Abdul Qayoom stated whereas property of one of many terrorists was just lately seized, applicable motion is being taken against the remainder of the others.
“Two of the terrorists have already been declared as ‘individual terrorists’ and two others as proclaimed offenders,” he stated, including dossiers are being ready against lively terrorists and the main points of their properties are additionally being collected.
