In its ongoing motion in opposition to terrorists working from Pakistan, the National Investigation Agency on Friday hooked up a property of The Resistance Front (TRF) operative Basit Ahmad Reshi in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
The motion follows the sealing of a Srinagar-based property of the founder and self-styled chief commander of the Al-Umar Mujahideen, Mushtaq Zargar alias ‘Latram’, on Thursday.
“Reshi, a ‘listed terrorist’ underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), has been working from Pakistan after his exfiltration there. He has been discovered funding terror actions and acts in the Kashmir Valley,” an NIA spokesperson mentioned.
The official mentioned Reshi had joined militant ranks in 2015 and was concerned in planning and executing an assault on a police guard put up in Sopore that killed a constable and injured others.
He was earlier related to banned terrorist outfit Hizbul-Mujahideen and at current, is concerned in terror actions of the TRF, managing provides of arms and ammunition in addition to funds for the fear group from throughout the border, the spokesperson mentioned.
The NIA mentioned Reshi’s agricultural land measuring 9.25 marlas has been hooked up underneath the provisions of the UAPA with the help of income and police officers.
Till date, the company has hooked up the properties of 5 designated terrorists — United States-based Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Canada-based Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and Pakistan-based Mushtaq Zargar, Basit Ahmad Pir and KCF (Panjwar) member Paramjit Singh alias ‘Panjwar’.
Recently, the NIA additionally hooked up underneath the UAPA, the Hurriyat’s workplace in Srinagar, which was owned in half by Nayeem Khan, an accused chargesheeted by the NIA in the Hurriyat terror funding case.
