Prayer leader among others arrested
Sopore, Jan 17 : Police in north Kashmir’s Sopore on Saturday claimed to have busted a fake Lashkar-e-Toiba militant module and arrested few persons including prayer leader.
In a statement issued to Kashmir Despatch police said a complaint received from one person (name with held) stating therein that he has received a letter on the letter pad of Lashker- e- Toiba where in he has been directed to pay an amount of Rs 5O k for banned outfit, as the organisation is in dire need of funds for carrying out various activities of organisation,Upon receipt of the complaint, FIR No.11/2021 U/S 13 ULPA 452,393,,120-B, 511 IPC was registered at PS Sopore and investigation was taken up.
During the course of investigation which involved utilization of human resources and technical means to trace the culprits, it came to fore that three persons namely Ishfaq Ahmad Reshi son of Ali Mohd reshi ( Maruti Eco driver by profession, Mumtaz Ahmad War Mohd maqbool War (Imaam by profession) and Ab Qayoom Ganie son of Mohd Sultan Ganie (Mason by profession), All residents of Warpora mastered a plan to collect money from the complainant.
Sopore police arrested the accused and upon interrogation they revealed that how they were blackmailing the innocent general public and prominent businessmen of the area.
Accused confessed that they used to identify the target first and then subsequently devise a plan to blackmail and loot the money by sending a letter on the letter pad of Lashkar -e-Toiba through kids,A Letter pad and one stamp has been recovered from their possessions.
The area of operation was not confined to Warpora only but they have extorted money from Main Town sopore , As of now police have identified 8 persons who have been looted by them and some posters demanding money have been recovered from them.
It is pertinent to mention here that Sopore police has busted a same type of Gang in the Year 2019 and all the four accused involved in the commission of crime were booked under PSA who were using fake AK – 47 for extortion. Meanwhile, investigation of the case is on and some more arrests are expected in the case.
Sopore police also requests general public to come forward and report any such sort of crime to police immediately so that innocent public can be saved from them the statement further reads.
