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| Terror financing case: Arrested Kishtwar youth spills beans | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 3: In its continuous probe into alleged terror financing, Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) team of Mumbai Police comprises of three Inspector rank officers on Thursday apprehended one 26 year old Aftab Hussain Shah Son of Late Jabbar Shah Resident of Patimahalla Kishtwar in case FIR No.09/2022 u/s 121A, 123A, 153 A, 116 IPC registered at ATS Police station Pune dated 24-05-2022 with the help of Jammu and Kashmir Police.
The sources told the Early Times that during questioning the said accused person stated that he works as carpenter to earn livelihood added that in the year 2019, he came in contact with one Junaid @ Alamgir, a resident of Maharashtra through Facebook and started messaging and calling on Facebook messenger.
Junaid @Alamgir told Shah that he (Junaid) wants to join millitancy and also used to share videos related to Jehad.
26 year old Shah also stated that he was also contacted on Facebook by another youth identified himself as Umar who used to video call him, but has never shown his face to him during all the conversations with him in recent past.
He further revealed that he had shared all this information with security forces as he was working with them as source.
The sources told the Early Times that ATS also questioned Aftab about the transaction of Rs 10,000 made by him into the account of Junaid @ Alamgir on 16-07-2021 , to which he denied all this added that he had not transferred any such amount into his account.
The sources said that ATS further questioned him regarding having conversation with Junaid @ Alamgir from 5 different IMEI numbers/handsets to which he denied and told the ATS that he had only one mobile phone.
The ATS team that had arrived in Kishtwar on Tuesday will be taking Aftab Hussain Shah accused to Mumbai tomorrow for further questioning and investigation of the case after taking his remand from a local court.
It is pertinent to mention that earlier Manjusha Bhosale, who is investigating the case, told the court that between 2021 and April 2022, Zargar had created a WhatsApp group ‘Ansar Gazwatul Hind/Tawheed’ and Junaid was part of it. The group discussed anti-national and terror activities. Junaid was in touch with Umar and Aftab and received Rs 10,000 in two transactions.
"They were working for the banned terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba, which is based in Pakistan. The accused were looking for new members for arms collection and training for terror activities in various parts of India. Junaid had been frequently changing his SIM cards. He also created various accounts on Facebook for recruiting new members," Bhosale submitted in the Maharashtra court. |
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