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| Malayali threat to JK polls | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 4: Security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir, who shot dead two alleged terrorists while they were trying to exfiltrate to other side of Line of Control recently, have received inputs suggesting that the two Malyalis were part of a group which was out to disrupt polls in the Kashmir Valley.
It is reliably learnt that the Malyalis were supposed to disrupt elections, the first phase of which is to begin on November 17, initially. ``These persons from Kerala were going to PoK to receive training when they were gunned down. Initially, they were to be used for disrupting polls in Kashmir Valley and later, to trigger blasts in the South,'' senior police officials said.
This development has baffled the Intelligence agencies as, normally, the youth recruited from south India, are only meant to trigger blasts or create communal disturbances in their respective cities.
While the police had arrested Mohammed Faizal of Kannur in Kerala, the main recruiter, two alleged militants -- Mohammed Yasin and Fayyaz -- were the two Malyalis who were gunned down in Kupwara region of Kashmir last month. Days later, two more young men from Kerala were also gunned down.
Interestingly, all these Keralites had spent 24 hours in a madarassa at Chandrayangutta in the Old City here in Hyderabad in September.
The city police, however, described it as a ``transit halt.'' Police officials said in view of the coming elections, terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Harkat-Ul-Jihad-Al-Islami (HUJI) and Hizbul Mujahideen have unanimously decided that for the next couple of months, their entire focus had to be on Jammu and Kashmir.
``Information reaching us indicates that the terror bosses in PoK are in the process of readying a massive group (of terrorists) whose only task is to disrupt polls in J & K. The group comprises many south Indians,'' sources disclosed.
They further said, ``the terror outfits ask `Hindustanis' from south India to first `prove themselves' by disrupting polls in Jammu and Kashmir and then travel down to their respective cities to trigger blasts.'' Information available with the Intelligence Bureau indicates that already over 1200 militants are camping in various parts of the troubled State.
Following the killing of the Muslims from Kerala in the valley, the J & K police have issued oral instructions to the officers to keep tabs on dark complexioned persons who appear to be from outside the state. |
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