Militant aide with ‘PDP links’ held
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, July 9
The police has arrested an over ground worker of a militant outfit, who is believed to be an activist of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Mendhar tehsil here.

Muhammad Naseem, a former numberdar, of Narole village in Mendhar was arrested on July 5. The police recovered a satellite phone and three mobile phones (two with Pakistani SIM cards) from his house.

He has been handed over to the counter insurgency (CI) wing of the police for interrogation at a joint interrogation centre (JIC) Jammu.

Police sources said about three weeks back, the Army had reportedly conveyed to the CI wing about some civilian using satellite phone in Mendhar area. The Army also informed that person use to shuttle between Mendhar and Jammu, sources added. The sources claimed that Muhammad Naseem used to go to Jammu, on the instructions of the ISI, to identify places to plant bombs so as to inflict maximum casualities ahead of the elections in the state.

He was also reportedly monitoring the movement of VIPs, security forces including the Army and convey the same to his bosses across the border, they added.

He was also providing the information regarding the deployment of different Army units and brigades in Poonch, Mendhar, Rajouri, Jammu, Akhnoor areas, the sources said.

K. Rajendra Kumar, IG, Jammu region, confirmed that the police has arrested an OGW but he refused to divulge much. “We are investigating the matter,” IG averred.