NIA arrests Bandipora teacher for supporting LeT

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 15

The NIA today said it had arrested Altaf Ahmed Rather, who worked for the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba’s recruitment module in J&K. The accused is a schoolteacher of Bandipora.

Officials said the case was related to the arrest of one Tania Parveen by West Bengal Police for her association with LeT.

The NIA took over the case on April 5 last year and re-registered the case. The probe agency had earlier filed a chargesheet Tania Parveen.

The probe revealed that Altaf Ahmed Rather was a schoolteacher in Bandipora and was an LeT sympathiser. “Tania Parveen had come in contact with Rather on social media platforms. He was instrumental in introducing Tania Parveen to LeT members based in Pakistan to radicalise, motivate and recruit youth for violent acts in India,” a senior NIA official said.