Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: Security agencies to recheck credentials of suspected employees after the arrest of a government teacher from the Surankote tehsil of Poonch district on Thursday.
Arrested teacher Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh, son of Abdul Rashid, resident of Sailan, Bufliaz was not only a terror-friendly employee but was an active terrorist and worked as a courier to transport weapons smuggled from across the Line of Control (LoC) to different parts of J&K.
A team of Bahram Gala Police Post acting on a specific intelligence input had laid a naka at Bahram Gala and intercepted a vehicle in which the government teacher Aijaz Ahmed Sheikh was travelling alone.
During interrogation, the government teachers disclosed the names of two other terrorists. Police raided the hideout of Gulshan and apprehended him along with a consignment of arms, ammunition, and cash.
Recoveries include two pistols, four loaded magazines, six mobile telephones, and Rs 2.5 lakh cash.
When both the terror operatives were subjected to cross-questioning, they named their third associate as Mehraj Ahmed, a Tempo Traveller, who had to shift the consignment in his vehicle to South Kashmir via Mughal Road.
As per the officials, the consignment of arms and ammunition seems to have been smuggled from across the Line of Control and was to be transported to South Kashmir with the help of three terror operatives who have been arrested.
The Safari vehicle in which the terror operatives had to shift the consignment to the Tempo Traveller has also been seized.
In February this year, Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a teacher-turned-Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist who triggered twin blasts in Jammu city.
Arif Ahmad was a government teacher and was an active terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He was working at the behest of Qasim, a Reasi resident, and his uncle Qamardin, also a Reasi resident, presently in Pakistan.
According to police, the government school teacher-turned-terrorist was involved in carrying out multiple blasts, including one in a bus carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims.
He has accepted his involvement in bombing the bus carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims that killed four people last year, an IED explosion in Jammu’s Shastri Nagar area in February 2022 the twin explosions at Narwal on January 21, 2023.
Although the Jammu and Kashmir government has terminated the services of over thirty employees for their direct or indirect involvement in terror activities, many terror-friendly employees are still indulging in anti-national activities.
As reported earlier, after the formation of a Special Task Force (STF) to identify and scrutinize its own 'terror friendly' employees, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has so far identified over 100 black sheep in the administration. Action against such employees will be initiated in a phased manner.
After getting inputs about the intrusion of sympathizers of terrorists in the administration, the Jammu and Kashmir government had announced the formation of a Special Task Force (STF) on April 21, 2021, to identify and scrutinize government employees with links to activities that pose a threat to national security.
The panel has been assigned the job of compiling records of such employees and refer the same to the committee, which was constituted in the month of July 2020. The panel will also engage with other members of the Terror Monitoring Group (TMG) to identify such employees. |
