Pampore: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a newly recruited militant of the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit from Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
A police official told Kashmir Reader that Police along with Army’s 50 RR and 185 battalion of the CRPF arrested one Faisal Rashid Dar, son of Abdul Rashid, a resident of Khankah Bagh Pampore near Konibal crossing in Pampore.
Dar had gone missing on September 11 to join Lashkar-e-Taiba and was active in Anantnag and Pulwama districts, a senior police officer told Kashmir Reader.
In a purported audio uploaded by Dar on social media on September 13, he had announced that he had signed up as a militant and asked his parents not to search for him.
Police said that “incriminating material” associated with Lashkar-e-Toiba has been recovered from Dar’s possession.
A case FIR number 79/2020 under relevant section of law has also been registered at Police Station Pampore.Earlier his mother and a sister had appealed to him to return home but he had declined their pleas.
He is the elder son of the family among three other siblings.
Newly recruited LeT militant from Pampore arrested: Police
