- Proceeds of funding deposited on names of family members
- Narco modules, drug peddlers to also meet same fate
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, June 14: With some militants including those based in Pakistan and PoJK using bank accounts of their family members and not holding any assets, movable or immovable, on their names, the Central and UT Governments are reported to have decided to attach part of their share in property and accounts.
The step is aimed at ensuring that the proceeds of terror funding are attached and freezed even if they are not on names of the militants, official sources told the Excelsior.
“While working out details of properties of militants including nearly 250 who are operating from Pakistan and PoJK, police and civil administration found that many of them had no assets on their names as their houses and land including those which were proceeds of terror funding were either on the names of their parents or family members,” they said.
Similarly, the cash proceeds of terror funding in most of the cases had also been deposited in bank accounts of family members or even relatives of the militants to avoid its detection.
“Police will be freezing the bank accounts which are even not on the names of militants which have part of terror funds in the accounts. The militants in these cases had used accounts of their parents and other family members and relatives to hide terror funding,” sources said.
Similar action will also be taken in case of those involved in narco terror modules and drug peddling, they added.
There has been massive impact of the move to attach assets and freeze bank accounts of militants especially those which are proceeds of terror funding. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), State Investigation Agency (SIA), Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP), State Investigating Units (SIUs) and other agencies have attached properties and freezed bank accounts of several militants and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) especially those which had been raised using terror funds.
Security officials expressed confidence that the move to attach properties and freeze accounts even if they are not on names of the militants but it has been established that they were linked to terror funding , will go a long way in further curbing the militant activities.
“Attachment of assets and freezing of accounts has helped in containing terrorism,” they asserted.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has already decided to approach the Interpol to apprehend hardcore terrorists hailing from Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts representing different terrorist outfits and are presently operating from Pakistan or PoJK.
They numbered around 250.
“The terrorists, who have fled away to Pakistan or to PoJK, are provoking and radicalizing the youth in the Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban region to engage them into terrorist related activities,” sources added.
It is learnt that many terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen had fled to Pakistan when the terrorism was on high in Jammu and Kashmir in 90s.
Maximum 118 such terrorists hailed from Doda district, 96 from Ramban and 36 in Kishtwar, sources said but added that not all of them are active as many have married local girls there and are doing small business or labour work while few others have died. However, a good number of them are active and trying to mobilize local youth in the three districts with the help of their old contacts to revive militancy.
“The Interpol will be approached for Red Corner Notice against only those terrorists who are active and trying to revive militancy. They belonged to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizbul Mujahideen and some other militant outfits. Their tentative locations in Pakistan and PoJK have also been traced by the Intelligence agencies,” the officials said.
On attachment of their property, the officials said during raids on the houses of terrorists as well as in the course of investigations, police found that there was no property on their names as they were young when they left houses and exfiltrated to Pakistan and PoJK.
In view of this, a decision has been taken that part of property to which the militants are eligible in their families will be attached.
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