In a stern motion, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) arrested a needed accused in a 2020 Kashmir narco-terror case in reference to a conspiracy of the banned Pakistan-based terrorist organizations to acquire and promote narcotic medication to lift funds for selling terrorism.
“Muneer Ahmad Banday, who had been evading arrest for the reason that final 4 years, was a key a part of the conspiracy, aimed toward producing funds to unfold terror in J&Okay and different components of India,” the NIA mentioned in a press release. The funds have been for use for furtherance of terrorist exercise within the UT of Jammu & Kashmir via a community of overground employees (OGWs), the assertion additional acknowledged.
“The conspiracy, involving operatives of banned terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), got here to gentle in June 2020 when the Handwara (Kupwara) police registered a case following seizure of two kg of heroin and Rs. 20 lakhs in money throughout checking of autos at Kairo Bridge,” it mentioned.
The assertion additional acknowledged that the car of accused Abdul Momin Peer was intercepted whereas coming from Baramulla to Handwara, resulting in the seizure. “Additional interrogation of Abdul Momin Peer resulted within the restoration of one other 15 kgs of heroin and Rs. 1.15 crores in money,” assertion revealed..
NIA, which took over the case and re-registered it as RC-03/2020/NIA/JMU on 23rd June 2020 underneath varied sections of the IPC, NDPS Act, and UA(P) Act, has filed a sequence of chargesheets thus far towards a complete of 15 individuals within the case RC-03/2020/NIA/JMU.
The central probe company is constant with its investigations to dismantle the narco-terror community and destroy the foundation of the fear funding within the nation, significantly in Kashmir, the assertion reads.
