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JAMMU: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a Head Constable, posted in North Kashmir’s District Kupwara for his involvement in narco-terror financing. The SIA also conducted a raid at his house at Belicharana in Satwari area of Jammu.
He has been identified as Head Constable Saif-ud-Din, presently posted in the 4th battalion of Indian Reserve Police (IRP) headquartered at North Kashmir’s Kupwara. Saif-ud-Din is originally a resident of Doda but is now settled at Belicharana. Earlier also he had been arrested in connection with the smuggling of narcotics at Pathankot and was later released on bail. A case of cheating has also been registered against him at the Crime Branch.
A senior police official of SIA told The New Indian, “During investigations of a narco-terror financing case involving former Minister Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh, ex-MLA Kathua, the name of Saif-ud-Din in the transportation of narcotics, cash and other items surfaced. After collecting evidence against him, he was arrested when he came to his house at Belicharana,”
During the raid at his house in Jammu, the SIA team recovered some electronic gadgets and other items. The arrested police Head Constable is being subjected to sustained questioning to ascertain how deep his involvement was in the narco-terror smuggling case including the source of obtaining narcotics and the persons to whom he supplied the consignments. Proceeds from the narco-terror case were reportedly used to finance terrorism.
Babu Singh, Chairman of Nature-Mankind Friendly Global Party, was arrested on April 9, 2022, within days of going underground following the arrest of his worker Mohammad Shareef Shah, a resident of South Kashmir’s Kokernag, along with Rs 6.90 lakh hawala money in Jammu.
The former Minister along with two others was subsequently charge-sheeted by the SIA in September 2022. Mohd Sharief Chechi, a key accused wanted in the case, was arrested by SIA Jammu from the border township of Uri in North Kashmir’s District Baramulla in September 2023.
While talking about the case, the senior police official of SIA said, “The agency busted the modus operandi adopted by the accused including Chechi who used to collect narcotics from across the Line of Control to generate proceeds for terror funding.”
The senior police official said, “ This case was initially registered at the Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Jammu following the arrest of Shah on specific information that he along with the former Minister were working under the directions of Pakistan’s ISI and their agents to fund J&K based separatists to carry out subversive activities.”
The senior police official added that investigations conducted till now, in this case, have revealed that there was a well-organised drug syndicate including Mohd Rafiq Najar and Farooq Ahmad Naikoo operating from Dubai who were infusing narcotics into the Indian territory for generating terror funds, to fuel subversive activities.
