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JeM overground worker arrested

Srinagar, February 5 The most wanted overground worker of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist outfit was arrested on Friday at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi after his deportation from Qatar, the police said here. Muneeb Ahmad Sofi, a...
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Srinagar, February 5

The most wanted overground worker of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist outfit was arrested on Friday at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi after his deportation from Qatar, the police said here.

Muneeb Ahmad Sofi, a resident of the Bijbehara area in Anantnag district, was arrested by a police team from Kulgam district, the police said on Twitter.

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Sofi was a militant associate or overground worker (OGW) for Pakistani militant Waleed Bhai who was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam last year.

Was Aide of slain Pak militant

Muneeb Ahmad Sofi was a militant associate for Pakistani militant Waleed Bhai, who was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam last year.

“Today a police party from Kulgam has arrested a most wanted terrorist associate, namely Muneeb Ahmad Sofi…linked with proscribed terror outfit JeM from Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, after his deportation from Qatar,” a police spokesman said.

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He said Sofi was involved in a case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act regarding collection of funds for the JeM.

“During the course of the investigation of the said case, one terrorist associate was arrested who revealed that he along with other terrorist associates were collecting money from various districts in Kashmir valley for the JeM,” he said.— PTI

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