On January 9, Security Forces (SFs) recovered arms and narcotics near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara District of Jammu and Kashmir, reports Daily Excelsior. “Based on a specific input, the arms and narcotics were recovered from Keran Payeen near Cobra Post view point along River Kishanganga,” an unnamed police official said. He said an AK-47 rifle, two AK magazines and packets of narcotics-like substance were recovered from the spot. The official said a person identified as Mohammad Amin Lone, resident of Naga Mandiyan, has been picked up for questioning.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 9 filed a supplementary charge sheet against three terror operatives including a Pakistani national of ‘The Resistance Front’ (TRF) – an offshoot of proscribed Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) – for conspiring to unleash terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) including Rajouri and Poonch districts, reports Daily Excelsior. The charge sheet was filed against Habibullah Malik alias ‘Sajid Jutt’, hailing from Kasur District in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, and two South Kashmir residents Hilal Yaqoob Deva alias “Sethi Soab” and Musiab Fayaz Baba alias “Shoaib Zarar” of Shopian before the NIA Special Court. Malik, who is known by various other names like Saifullah, Noomi, Numan, Langda, Ali Sajid, Usman Habib and Shani, has been found to have been involved in various terrorist attacks in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu region, the official said. The supplementary charge sheet follows investigations in the case registered suo-motu by the NIA on June 21, 2023. The case relates to a conspiracy hatched “physically as well as in cyberspace” by various proscribed terrorist organisations to spread fear and terror and disrupt peace in J&K by carrying out attacks using sticky bombs, Improvised Explosive Devices and small arms.