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.

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