Police attach property of LeT terror associate in North Kashmir’s Bandipora

SRINAGAR: Police in Bandipora attached a 14-marla residential land at Ashtengoo Bandipora belonging to the family of a ‘terror associate’ of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday.

While talking to The New Indian exclusively senior superintendent of police Bandipora, Lakshay Sharma (IPS) said, “The land, registered in the name of Mukhtar Bhat, father of accused Irfan Ahmad Bhat, was identified as ‘proceeds of terrorism’ in a case filed against him in 2022”.

The SSP said, “The case pertains to the recovery of explosives and other incriminating material from his possession under case under sections 23 UA(P) Act, 04 and Explosive Substance Act of Police Station Bandipora.”

The SSP further said, “Irfan’s brother Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat had been exfiltrated to Pakistan in 2000 and was involved in terrorist activities. Irfan was running the Lashkar-e-Taiba grid in the Aloosa area of Bandipora”. The land attached has been put under restrictions and cannot be transferred, leased out, or disposed of in any way without the prior permission of the authorities.

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