Recruitment module being run by new terror group busted

The J&K Police on Tuesday said it had busted a recruitment module, which was being run by a newly floated terrorist organisation, ‘Tehreek Labaik Ya Muslim’. The police said they had arrested eight people in the case.

According to officials, the outfit is an offshoot of LeT and is headed by a Pakistani terrorist handler.

As per a police statement, the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of the J&K Police conducted search at 10 locations in Kashmir.

The police said the case pertained to a larger conspiracy hatched by proscribed terrorist organisations operating within J&K and across the LoC at the behest of Pakistani agencies in connivance of their over ground workers (OGWs)/supporters/ facilitators/ sympathisers in Kashmir Valley, who were continuously in process of creating ‘new terror modules’ (gangs).

It said they are “misusing various social media applications, youths of Kashmir are lured by varied ways and means including radicaliSation/instigation/provocation etc. with the intention to make the youths indulge in unlawful and terrorist activities and also to join terrorist ranks for furthering the activities of these terrorist organisations.”

The police said they received information that ‘@Baba Hamas’, a terrorist handler of LeT, was going to float a new terrorist organisation by the name of ‘Tehreek Labaik Ya Muslim’ (TLM), an offshoot of LeT. “It was found that terrorist handler Gazi Hama was providing seditious material and directions to OGWs/supporters/facilitators/sympathisers through various covert/encrypted social media applications for radicalisation and luring the youths to join terrorist ranks of newly floated terrorist organisation ‘Tehreek Labaik Ya Muslim’,” an official said.

The module was in continuous touch with handlers/members of terrorist organisation(s) across the border. Amongst other modes of communication, it was learnt that encrypted internet messaging platforms, besides other software applications were being used, an official said.

The police said as such, the searches were conducted at 10 locations of the Kashmir Valley, wherein “besides arrest of suspects, incriminating material in the form of digital devices, SIM cards, Mobile phones, laptops and seditious material were recovered and seized in the case”. “This outfit also remained involved in the pasting of posters at various locations in south and central Kashmir and on social media platforms as well,” it said.

BABA HAMAS BEHIND TERROR GROUP: POLICE

The police said they received information that ‘Baba Hamas’, a terrorist handler of LeT, was going to float a new terrorist organisation by the name of ‘Tehreek Labaik Ya Muslim’, an offshoot of LeT.