Terror threat on Amarnath Yatra: Relatives of killed, active terrorists under NIA scanner

Amid threat to Amarnath Yatra, National Investigation Agency is working on three main angles during probe of terror conspiracy hatched by terror outfits to target ongoing Amarnath Yatra. NIA is probing relatives of killed/ active terrorists who are possible targets of terror groups planning an attack on Amarnath Yatra.

Sources privy to development said that terror groups are eyeing family members of terrorists who have been killed by security forces in various encounters and are trying to ricalise m to join terror ranks to carry out terror strikes. Sources also say that terror commanders from Jammu and Kashmir who crossed over to Pakistan are also trying to activate ir family members and relatives to loop m into terror activities.

“This first came into being during investigation of Udhampur IED Blast case in which terrorist who carried out this attack turned out to be son of killed terrorist and wasn’t even on list of security forces but was ricalised using social media to carry out IED attack which killed a person and injured over dozen in Udhampur’s Slathia Chowk in March this year. Since n, Police is keeping a check on all those from families of killed terrorists to prevent any untoward incident,” said an official on condition of anonymity.

NIA is also looking into threat that is being emerged by social media applications, Apps like Telegram and ors are being used for ricalising youth and agency is looking for possible suspects, even some of m have been raided by NIA too.

NIA in its FIR has said, “Reliable information has been received that cres and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of various proscribed terrorist organizations i.e., Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohamm (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Br and or terror outfits including ir affiliates / off-shoots operating under pseudo names such as " Resistance Front (TRF)", "United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (UL J&K)", "Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH)", "Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF)", Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and ors in cohorts with ir commanders based in Pakistan are actively involved in collection and distribution of huge consignments of "narcotics", "cash", "small arms weapons", "Improvised Explosive Devices" and "or similar explosives like "Remote control operated sticky bombs/magnetic bombs" supplied through drones as well as assembled locally, in order to execute terrorist attacks in UT of J&K by way of targeting minorities, security personnel and religious pilgrimages including holy Shri Amaranthji Yatra, Shri Vaishno Devi Yatra and or similar religious activities”.

It furr ded that for above purpose, y are conspiring both physically and through cyberspace by using secured encrypted social media messaging applications to create communal disharmony, terrorist attack and wage war against Government of India.