Maharashtra  anti-terrorism squad arrests man from J-Ok in terror funding case

By PTI

PUNE: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested a person from Jammu and Kashmir in a case of recruitment of operatives for a terrorist organisation and funding, an ATS official mentioned on Tuesday.

With this, the state ATS has nabbed 4 individuals up to now since May this 12 months within the terror funding and recruitment case.

Elaborating on the newest motion, the official mentioned they’ve arrested a 32-year-old man from Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir and can produce him in a courtroom on Tuesday.

“The suspect is accused of transferring funds into the accounts of Junaid Mohammad Ata Mohammad, another accused who was arrested by the ATS on May 24. We are conducting a probe into the case,” the official mentioned.

Junaid was arrested for his alleged function within the recruitment of operatives for the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in response to officers.

On Monday, a Maharashtra ATS official mentioned that they had on arrested one Inamul Haq from Uttar Pradesh. Haq was already arrested by the Uttar Pradesh ATS in March this 12 months for his alleged hyperlinks with the Pakistan-based LeT and radicalising youth. He was in jail in UP, from the place the Maharashtra ATS took his custody.

As per police, Junaid, a local of Khamgaon village in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district, who had been working in Pune for the previous few years, was in contact with some lively members of the LeT’s terror community by way of social media platforms.

Following Junaid’s arrest, the Maharashtra ATS had additionally nabbed one Aftab Hussain Shah from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir.