44 terror groups banned, 4 this year: MHA

Sharing details of the four organisations, Rai said the TRF is a proxy outfit of terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba and came into existence in 2019. “It has been involved in planning killings of security force personnel and innocent civilians of Jammu and Kashmir, co-ordinating and transporting weapons to support proscribed terrorist organisations, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from across the border,” he said.

On the PAFF, he said it is a proxy outfit of terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed and came into existence in 2019. “It has been involved in radicalization of youth…, issuing threats to Indian security forces, political leaders and civilians working in J&K from other parts of the country, conspiring pro-actively physically and in social media to undertake violent terrorist acts in J&K and major cities in India,” he said.

The third organisation that was banned – JKGF – surfaced in 2020 and draws its cadres from proscribed terrorist organisations such as Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami, he said. “It has been involved in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling and carrying out terror attacks in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” Rai said in a written reply to a question from BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi.

The KTF came into existence in 2011 as an offshoot of Babbar Khalsa International, a proscribed terrorist organisation under the UAPA. “It promotes acts of terrorism and its cadres have been receiving financial and logistics support… from their foreign based handlers and have been found involved in various terrorist cases, including targeted killings,” he said.