Terror operative arrested in J&K’s Doda | India News – Times of India

JAMMU: Acting on intelligence inputs, a police team arrested a terror associate in J&K’s Doda district late Thursday. The accused, Firdous Ahmed Wani from Mangota-Marmat area, was recently living in Dandi Bhaderwah, a police spokesperson said on Friday.
Doda SSP Sandeep Mehta said Wani had been in constant contact with terrorist handlers across the border through various social media platforms and had conspired to execute. subversive activities in and around Doda, in collaboration with active terrorists and handlers operating from Pakistan and PoK.
“He actively worked to revive terrorism in the area by providing a foothold for anti-national elements in Doda,” the SSP said. “A thorough search of the suspect and his residence led to the seizure of incriminating material and documents,” he said, adding that an FIR had been registered with Bhaderwah PS in this regard.
Wani’s arrest came hours after another terror outfit, Abdul Satar, was arrested from Basantgarh in Udhampur district on Thursday and lodged in jail under the Public Safety Act. “Satar, a resident of Ponara Soni, was involved in multiple terror cases and had worked as an active guide and facilitator for terror outfits till his arrest,” an official said, adding that several FIRs had been registered against Satar with Basantgarh PS.
Police have intensified their crackdown on terror networks linked to banned terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba and recently conducted over 70 raids in multiple districts of Jammu division, killing several terror suspects during the operations have been arrested.