NIA to probe Saltora blast case
On 30 August this year in Lipari area in Saltora police station area, people heard a huge sound of a blast and it killed Joydeb Mondal, a motorcycle rider.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one Arsalan Feroz, an operative of The Resistance Front (TRF) terror group, for allegedly radicalising and recruiting Kashmiri youngsters to join terror ranks, NIA said on Friday.
A spokesperson of NIA said searches were conducted in Kashmir on Thursday during which Arsalan Feroz, a resident of downtown Maharajganj Srinagar, was arrested.
The case relates to a conspiracy hatched for radicalising, motivating and recruiting youngsters of Jammu and Kashmir to effect violent activities in the Union Territory and in other parts of the country by Sajjad Gul, Salim Rehmani alias Abu Saad and Saifullah Sajid Jutt, who are commanders of the TRF, a shadow organisation of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror outfit.
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The agency has so far arrested four accused in the case.
According to the NIA, “Feroz, in a criminal conspiracy with these people, was recruiting individuals to carry out reconnaissance of pre-determined targets, coordinating and transporting weapons to support Lashkar and its frontal affiliate, TRF”.
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