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New LeT-linked terror group module dismantled after raids across Kashmir: J&K Police

Police identified the newly formed militant organisation as Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Mulism (TLM), which they said was an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

militant killedPolice identified the newly formed militant organisation as Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Mulism (TLM), which they said was an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

The J&K Police’s Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing has conducted operations across several districts of the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday and said that it busted the recruitment module of a newly formed militant group with links to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

According to police, they conducted the operations after getting inputs about an “active” militant module. Raids were carried out in several locations across Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal in central Kashmir; Kulgam, Anantnag and Pulwama in south Kashmir; and Bandipora in north Kashmir.

Police identified the newly formed militant organisation as Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Mulism (TLM), which they said was an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

The busted recruitment module of the TLM was run by a Pakistan-based Lashkar commander called Baba Hamas, police said.

The operations come two days after seven people, most of them from outside J&K, were killed in a terror attack on a camp housing employees of an infrastructure company that was building a tunnel in Ganderbal district. Two gunmen had opened indiscriminate fire at the camp on Sunday, in the first major attack faced by an infrastructure project in J&K.

Bashaarat Masood is a Special Correspondent with The Indian Express. He has been covering Jammu and Kashmir, especially the conflict-ridden Kashmir valley, for two decades. Bashaarat joined The Indian Express after completing his Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University in Kashmir. He has been writing on politics, conflict and development. Bashaarat was awarded with the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2012 for his stories on the Pathribal fake encounter. ... Read More

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