STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday attached a shop belonging to a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist, who is presently in custody for his alleged involvement in the killing of a circus worker, in Anantnag district, officials said.
The shop named ‘The Game Modification Point’ was used for terror activities by the accused, Umar Amin Thoker, a resident of Bijbehara’s Waghama area, the police said.
Located in Zirpora on the Bijbehara-Pahalgam road, the shop has been attached under Section 25 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), according to the officials.
Police said in a notice that the property cannot be sold, leased, purchased, transferred, gifted, sublet, mortgaged or loaned without the competent authority’s permission.
Thoker and four other JeM terrorists were arrested in connection with the killing of Deepak Kumar (27), a resident of south Kashmir’s Udhampur district, the officials said.
Thoker, who worked at a circus in Udhampur’s Janglat Mandi area, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne terrorists from a close range on the night of May 29 this year when he had gone to the market to buy milk, they said.
Elaborating the details, a police handout stated that a case vide FIR No. 171/2023 under section 7/27 I.A Act, 302 IPC 16, 18, 20, 39 UAPA was registered and investigation was initiated.
During the course of investigation, six six terrorists were arrested who were identified as Sehran Bashir Nadaf son of Bashir Ahmad Nadaf resident of Shirpora Deva Colony, Ubaid Nazir Laigroo son of Nazir Ahmad Laigroo resident of Shirpora New Colony, Umer Amin Thoker son of Mohd Amin resident of Waghama, Huzaif Shabir Bhat son of Shabir Ahmad Bhat resident of Wachi Shopian, Nasir Farooq Shah son of Farooq Ahmad Shah resident of Wanteng Mohalla Bijbehara and Suveed Showkat Bhat son of Showkat Ahmad Bhat resident of Fatehpora. The arrested terrorists were linked with Kashmir Freedom Fighter, an offshoot of proscribed terrorist outfit JeM.