Precious Kashmir News
Kupwara, June 11: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a militant module by arresting three associates of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) with 21 kg heroin and Rs 1.34 crore cash at Handwara in the frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara.
“On reliable information, police busted militant module by arresting three associates of LeT. Incriminating materials — including 21 kg of heroin worth Rs 100 crore in international market, cash worth Rs1.34 crores and a cash counting machine — were recovered from them,” a senior officer told a news conference in Handwara.
Giving details, he said police had been receiving specific inputs from last two weeks about a major drug trafficking racket operating in Handwara. “Various police teams were developing these inputs, technically and investigatively,” he said.
The officer said all those arrested were in constant contact with their Pakistani handlers. “The module was responsible for giving financial support to LeT militants in J&K though funds generated by drugs trafficking,” he said.
He said, “It is a very big Hawala racket where money is transferred without money movement to finance militant activities,” he said.
The SP Handwara said the accused have been identified as Syed Iftikhar Indrabi, a resident of Laribal Rajwar Handwara, his son-in-law Moomin Peer and Iqbal-ul-Islam, both residents of Waskura in Handwara. “More arrests would happen in the coming days,” he added.
The official stated that Indrabi is the main accused, already has two cases of drug trafficking registered against him.
