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The Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Pressure (JKGF), which has been fashioned with cadres from terrorist organisations such because the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, was on Friday banned beneath the stringent anti-terror legislation, officers stated right here.
In a separate notification, a resident of Punjab, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, was declared a terrorist by the Ministry of House Affairs, they stated.
Based on a notification issued by the ministry, the JKGF has been concerned in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling, terror assaults within the Union territory, and threats to safety forces.
The JKGF attracts its cadres from numerous proscribed terrorist organisations, such because the Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and others, the house ministry stated.
Sandhu alias Rinda, who hails from Punjab however is at the moment primarily based in Lahore and related to the banned group Babbar Khalsa Worldwide (BKI), has been declared a terrorist.
He’s alleged to be one of many masterminds behind an assault on the intelligence headquarters of the Punjab Police in 2021.
A Purple Nook Discover was additionally issued towards Sandhu by the Interpol.
The house ministry stated the JKGF has been utilizing numerous social media platforms to incite the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir to hitch terrorist outfits towards India.
The phobia group is detrimental to nationwide safety and the sovereignty of India and is concerned in terrorism. It has dedicated and took part in numerous acts of terrorism within the nation, the ministry stated.
In train of powers conferred by the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, the JKGF has been designated as a terror group, the notification acknowledged. The ban might be efficient to the JKGF and all its manifestations and entrance organisations.
The JKGF is the 43rd group to be declared outlawed beneath the anti-terror legislation.
The house ministry additional stated Harwinder Singh Sandhu has direct hyperlinks with Pakistan-based terrorist teams and can also be concerned in cross-border smuggling of arms, ammunition and militant {hardware}, apart from medication on a big scale.
He was concerned in numerous felony offences as nicely like homicide, try to homicide, contract killing, theft and extortion in Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the ministry stated.
Singh is now the 54th particular person to be designated as a terrorist by the federal government.
Final month, the central authorities had banned two proxy organisations of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad and declared 4 people as terrorists.
On January 5, the The Resistance Entrance (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was declared a banned group.
The house ministry stated the TRF was recruiting youth via the web medium for the furtherance of terrorist actions, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.
The TRF got here into existence in 2019 as a proxy of the banned LeT, which was concerned in quite a few terror acts, together with the 26/11 Mumbai assault.
It was concerned in psychological operations on social media platforms for inciting individuals of Jammu and Kashmir to hitch terrorist outfits towards the Indian authorities, the ministry stated.
On January 6, the Individuals’s Anti-Fascist-Entrance (PAFF), a proxy outfit of one other Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, was banned for its involvement in terror acts within the Union territory and elsewhere.
The house ministry stated the PAFF has been frequently issuing threats to safety forces, political leaders and civilians from different states who had been working in Jammu and Kashmir.
The PAFF, together with different organisations, is concerned in pro-actively conspiring each bodily and on social media to undertake violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir and main cities in India, it stated.
The 4 people who had been declared terrorists beneath the UAPA had been Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger alias Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, who is predicated in Afghanistan and is without doubt one of the chief recruiters of the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK), Mohammed Amin Khubaiab alias Abu Khubaiab, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir however at the moment is in Pakistan, Arbaz Ahmad Mir, who’s working for LeT, and Asif Maqbool Dar, who lives in Saudi Arabia and is a number one radical voice concerned in influencing the Kashmiri youth to take up arms.
Mir was additionally allegedly concerned in focused killings and emerged as the principle conspirator within the homicide of a instructor in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam just a few months in the past.
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