Jammu,8th August,2020- On 19th July, 2020 a team of SOG Jammu/Army apprehended one Mubashir Farooq Batt S/O Farooq Ahmed Batt R/O Sazan, Doda (Student of Bsc Nursing at Kharar,Chandigarh) with consignment of 1.5 Lac Indian Currency concealed in a Tiffin Box. A case FIR No. 42/2020 U/S 17/18/20/21/38 and 40 of UAPA Act 1967 was registered at Police Station Peermitha, Jammu.2) During investigation of the case SOG Jammu apprehended five more suspects involved in the module namely
- Toqeer Ahmad Batt S/O Ghulam Qadir Batt R/O Sazan, Doda (Moulvi at Masjid Shimal, Doda)
- Asif Batt S/O Md. Ayoub Bhatt R/O Sazan, Doda (surrendered terrorist and Ex-SPO in J&K Police)
- Khalid Latief Batt R/O Kotal, Doda, (contractor)
- Gazi Iqbal S/O Mohd. Iqbal R/O Kotal, Doda, (Works in a Chicken shop at Jammu)
- Tariq Hussain Mir S/O Shamas Din R/O Tanta Doda (Karyana shop owner at Tanta, Doda)
who have admitted their involvement in the case.
3) Pertinently all the accused are in contact with Pakistani Handler namely @Haroon @Khubaib (Mohd. Amin Batt S/O Dawood Batt R/O Kathawa, Thathri.) who remained as Distt. Commander of LeT in Doda and exfiltrated to Pakistan 2007.
4) All the above named accused were tasked to:-
- Identify gullible youth for recruitment in terror ranks,
- Providing logistics support and strengthening LeT cadre in the region,
- Sharing information about presence of security forces and their important locations to Pak handlers.
- Transportation of Arms & Ammunition from one location to another
- Distributing money among the families of active and deceased terrorists.
5) During questioning of all above 06 arrested persons it has surfaced that they received money amounting to Rs 12,19,704 through different means on different occasions as part of this module. They were also instrumental in recruiting :
• Abid Ahmed Bhat (LeT) S/O Waliya Bhat R/O Sazan, Doda( Now Killed)
• Jamal Din (LeT) R/O Doda ( Now Surrendered).
6) During interrogation of suspect namely Mohd. Irfan Khan S/O Tariq Hussain R/O Bijarni, Doda (Driver of Tempo JK12-2088 by profession), it has came out that in the month of July beginning he along with two associates namely Gazi Iqbal S/O Mohd. Iqbal R/O Kotal, Doda (arrested in above mentiond case) & Amir Batt S/O Ghulam Qadir Batt R/O Sazan, Doda hoisted Pakistani flag at Lal Draman area as they were tasked by @Haroon to do so. It has been further corroborated with the disclosure of Gazi Iqbal who admitted that he received call from Pak Handler @haroon @khubaib for hoisting Pak flag and subsequently he purchased cloth from a local shop at Doda town and stitched that flag by himself solving the case of Doda.
7) On 5th of August, 2020 on the disclosure of Tariq Hussain Mir S/O Shamas Din R/O Tanta, Doda, SOG Jammu recovered 03 more tiffin Boxes from his house including Indian currency Rs 40,700 which he received as consignment on different occasions from Pak handlers as part of this module.
8) In continuation to the investigation of above mentioned terror financing case the involvement of four accused from Kashmir has surfaced. Moreover it has come to notice that the module has its links in other parts of the country.
9) Further investigation into the case is underway to unearth terror financing channels and OGW’s network used for providing financial support and motivating youth for spreading terror in J&K.
