Handwara police in Jammu and Kashmir destroyed a narco-terrorism module sponsored by Pak (representation)
Srinagar / New Delhi:
Handwara police in Jammu and Kashmir detonated a huge narco-terrorist module sponsored by Pakistan today in which three terrorists from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested.
“Those arrested were in contact with their Pakistani managers. 21 kg of heroin, an Indian currency worth Rs 1.34 crore, was seized,” said police superintendent Handwara GV Sundeep Chakravarthy.
“The three have been identified. The main accused is Iftikhar Indrabi, a notorious drug trafficker who has several FIR registered against him. The second man is his son-in-law Momin Peer and the third is Iqbal-ul-Islam. More arrests are going take place in this module, “he added.
Other members of the counter-terrorism module have also been identified and efforts are underway to arrest them.
The senior police officer said that “the three were trafficking drugs to help financially the terrorists from Lashkar-e-Taiba in Jammu and Kashmir. It is a very big hawala racket where money is transferred without movement money and funded for terrorist activities. “
According to the Jammu and Kashmir police, the recoveries of the 3 terrorists included 21 kg of high-quality heroin, which is valued at around Rs 100 crore on the international market.
Cash of 1.34 crore rupees and a cash counting machine were also recovered, the police added.
A case under relevant articles of the law has been registered at the Handwara police station, police said, adding that a special investigation team (SIT) had been established to thoroughly investigate the links between the terrorist outfits , radical elements, smugglers and other anti-national elements.
(ANI and PTI entries)
