jihadi terror groups
PTI
Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir government today said the police was looking into the revelations made by three arrested youths from Hyderabad that they were planning to meet separatist leader Asiya Andrabi and join jihadi terror groups.
“We are in touch with the Telangana police. All the agencies are investigating. It is a serious case so we are on the job,” Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh told reporters here.
Singh was asked for comments on the revelations made by the three youths who were arrested on December 27 following their detention by police last week from the Nagpur airport before they were to leave for Srinagar.
A senior officer of the special investigation team of police in Hyderabad yesterday said that the youths, identified as Mohd Abdulla Basith, Maaz Hasan Farooq and Syed Omer Farooq Hussaini, had no direct connection with Andrabi, nor did she know them.
After reaching Srinagar the youths, all aged between 20-22 years, wanted to meet her using the name of their late uncle, former chief of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Syed Salahuddin, and seek her help to cross the border and reach Jalalabad in Afghanistan, the official had revealed.
Andrabi is a leader of the separatist Kashmiri women's group, Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
Further speaking, Singh said “I have reports that there was some communication when one of the relatives of the boys who was killed in an accident... who was a SIMI activist...
“Asiya had sent condolences to them. It has not been so far established whether or not they were in communication,” he said.
Stating that the matter is under probe, he said, “I think it is not proper to say more unless we pick up some more threads, but we are on the job. We are taking it seriously.” Asked about the communication between the arrested boys and Andrabi, Singh said that she had sent her condolences at that time. “I think it happened last year, but in between, whether they had some communication with her is a matter of investigation,” he added.
“Definitely, they were coming to Srinagar to meet her because they were knowing her name and all that. All these things have to be established,” Singh said.
“Definitely, the government and police will verify these facts. There is every apprehension of such a thing. If it is proved, then the government will act as per law,” Singh said.
