Srinagar police bust another multi-state Al Falah-type LeT network | India News
New Delhi: Srinagar Police has busted yet another Al-Falah-type, multi-state network Lashkar e Taiba A painstaking, months-long investigation began after the arrest of the two men Pakistani terrorists Allegedly receiving logistics, directing and organizing foreign terrorists who infiltrated Jammu and Kashmir in March, which created a network of Overground Workers (OGWs) not only in Kashmir but also in other states like Haryana and Rajasthan.Abdullah @ Abu Hurera @ Ahmed, a resident of Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan who infiltrated through Gurez in 2010 and Mohammad Usman @ Khoobaib, a resident of Lahore and crossed Baramulla in 2017, were arrested from Malerkotla, Punjab a month ago, based on human and technical intelligence. Their interrogations revealed a network of OGWs that the Hurras had built over the past 16 years in South Kashmir and Usman in Baramulla since 2017, and which is now being expanded to include cities in Haryana and Rajasthan, particularly those with a large concentration of seminaries with suspected links to Pakistan and LeT. Hurrera and Usman, both A-plus category terrorists who have directed and commanded around 40 foreign terrorists in J&K over the years and have been working together since 2023, traveled to Nuh and Mewa via Delhi at different times.Searches at 19 locations in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Haryana led to the detention or arrest of six OGWs in Haryana, four in Rajasthan and more than a dozen in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said the purpose of the multi-state module was to build a LeT network outside Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistani and LeT contacts; And using this to create havens for LeT terrorists and eventually facilitate their exit from India with fake documents arranged by the local OGW network. At least one Pakistani terrorist, Hare, reportedly escaped from Rajasthan using fake identity and travel documents.The investigation also revealed the funding and financial pattern of LET.More arrests are likely in the coming days, with investigators not ruling out footprints in more states. The case is likely to be taken over by the NIA.
