Four of the seven held are overground workers who provided logistics support to terrorists; a police constable is one of them
The Jammu and Kashmir Police dealt a major blow to Hizbul Mujahedeen on Sunday when they busted two of its modules and arrested seven militants and overground workers (OGWs), including a cop-driver of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA, in north and south Kashmir.
The first module was busted in Shopian district of south Kashmir when the police arrested four OGWs, including Constable Towseef Ahmad, who was posted as a driver to the PDP MLA from Wachi constituency, Aijaz Ahmad Mir.
The police said the OGWs were arrested for their involvement in providing logistic support to militants for carrying out an attack on special police officer Khursheed Ahmad on June 11 at Imam Sahab in Shopian district.
The arrested OGWs have been identified as Amir Mohidin, a relationship executive in a bank, Constable Ahmad, Basharat Yusuf Mir, a teacher in a private school, and Iftikhar Rather.
The police said that during investigations, it came to the fore that the attack was carried out by Nazim Nazir Dar on the direction of Hizbul commanders Saddam Padder and Irfan Abdullah Ganie.
"Investigations conducted so far have revealed their (OGWs') complicity in entering into a criminal conspiracy for carrying out future attacks at the behest of this group, aimed at targeting some more policemen and civilians," said a police spokesman.
Hizbul efforts to replenish its depleting ranks suffered a major setback when the police busted its recruitment module in the Pattan area of Baramulla and arrested three people who were planning to send boys to Pakistan on valid visas for arms training.
They were identified as Ansar-ul-lah Tantray, Abdul Rashid Bhat and Mehraj-ud-din Kak. "Abdul Rashid Bhat had visited Pakistan in May this year and obtained terror training in Hizbul's Khalid bin Waleed camp, located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir," said Imtiyaz Hussain, senior superintendent of police, Baramulla.
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