Srinagar: The State Investigation Agency (SIA), a wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, has booked three persons, including an Indian student and his father, who were enrolled in a Pakistani university, for their involvement in terror activities and cross-border information about Army installations. A charge sheet has been filed. Officials said this is another example of Pakistan misusing higher education to recruit youth into terror groups.
He said that 17 such youths who went to Pakistan for studies have already been killed while infiltrating into Kashmir along the Line of Control or during encounters of security forces with terrorist organizations. Officials said that a charge sheet has been filed against student Asif Shabir Naik, his father Shabbir Hussain Naik, and Safdar Hussain, residents of Kashtigarh in Doda under various sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act, of whom Shabbir and Safdar are presently in Pakistan.
‘Pakistan court will be contacted’
The SIA has also used the legal medium of request letter in which the Pakistani court will be contacted by the competent Indian court and Pakistan’s assistance in providing information about the accused persons will be sought. A senior agency official said, “Even if the chances of a positive response are slim, the SIA will not leave any legal stone unturned.”
‘Indian student working in Hizbul Mujahideen’
Officials said that Asif Shabbir Naik was shown as a mass communication student of International Islamic University in Islamabad, but in reality, he was working in the media wing of banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. He was apprehended on the basis of intelligence inputs at the Srinagar airport. Officials said that he has been going to Pakistan not for studies but to meet terrorists and visit their training centers.
‘Indian students being used for wrongdoing’
Officials said the case has shown how Pakistani agencies are brazenly using wrongdoings to not only travel between the two countries on the basis of valid travel documents, but also Indian students going to Pakistan for higher studies. have been. He said investigations reveal that the terrorist outfit Hizbul Mujahideen posed as a student to protect Naik and used the opportunity of his stay in Pakistan to reunite him with his father, who is the media wing of the banned terror outfit. is major.
‘Forensic investigation of the phone revealed’
Apart from this, he was also given training in subversive activities, officials said. Forensic examination of his phone revealed that he had video graphed military installations on the Baramulla-Srinagar road, they said. Officials said that he had also taken photographs of the way to the airport and the security places adjacent to it. He said that Naik was issued a visitor visa, but immigration records indicate that he was a student.
‘Mastermind Shabbir Hussain Naik is hiding in Pakistan’
Officials said that Naik has been arrested in the case and is currently in judicial custody, while two other accused, mastermind Shabbir Hussain Naik and his associate Safdar Hussain, are hiding in Pakistan, and a charge sheet has been filed against them as fugitives. is. According to officials, the investigation revealed that Naik had concealed that his father was based in Pakistan and was a senior member of the terrorist group.
