The counter-intelligence wing of Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against a terrorist aide from the South Kashmir Anantnag district in an online terror recruitment case. An official spokesperson of counter-intelligence Kashmir (CIK) termed the arrest a major success against the Pakistan-backed terror propaganda and recruitment networks operating through social media.
The CIK produced the chargesheet before the court of a special judge designated under the NIA Act here, he added.
The chargesheet was filed in a case — FIR No. 07/2023 — registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against Aadil Ahmad Khan, alias Gull Khan, a resident of the Drien Qazigund area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
The case involves a terror recruitment module being operated through social media platforms, with intentions to radicalise and recruit impressionable youths of Jammu and Kashmir into the ranks of proscribed terrorist organisations, he said.
He said an investigation was launched based on credible information that unscrupulous individuals and entities based in Pakistan are in connivance with terrorist handlers of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other banned outfits. These terror modules use social media platforms to lure Kashmiri youth and instigate them to wage war against the sovereignty and integrity of India.
Additionally, three more accused, Waseem Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Kandoora Budgam; Junaid Ahmad Mir from Tikkipora, Lolab; and Shabir Ahmad Gojri from the Darbagh Harwan area of the city, were earlier arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on the same charges.
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