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Jammu and Kashmir's police have filed a chargesheet against five individuals accused of assisting militant groups operating in UT’s Doda district by providing them food and other logistical support.

A police spokesperson stated that the chargesheet was filed in two separate cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in an NIA court in Doda.

One of the cases was registered at Gandoh police station against Shoket Ali of Sharakhi village in Bhaderwah tehsil.

 

He has been charged under various sections of the UAPA for harbouring three foreign terrorists who were killed last year in the area, the spokesperson said.

The second case, registered in Dessa, was filed against Muneer Hussain of Pranoo, Tanveer Ahmed of Kulhand, Noor Alam of Doda, and Kunj Lal of Herani Assar.

“This action is part of a broader strategy to dismantle the logistical and financial systems enabling terrorism in the region,” the spokesperson said.

Doda witnessed multiple terror attacks in 2024; a total of five soldiers were killed and seven more were injured during two back-to-back attacks between June and July.

Meanwhile, on January 1, security forces apprehended four individuals accused of assisting militant outfits in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

According to the police, the arrested youth were “terrorist associates” of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in the Tral area and were involved in “providing logistics support and transportation of arms and ammunition to active terrorists.”

The arrested individuals were identified as Mudasir Ahmad Naik, Umar Nazir Sheikh, Inayat Firdoos Rather, and Salman Nazir Lone, all residents of Tral.

 

“Incriminating materials have been recovered from their possession,” the police said.

Security forces have intensified counter-insurgency operations on both sides of the Pir Panjal region; the success of these anti-militancy operations can be assessed by the declining number of local recruits in militant ranks in 2024.

Officials said that in 2024, the number of local youth joining militant ranks in the region has decreased to single digits or zero in some districts.