3 LeT associates nabbed in Srinagar : Police

Srinagar : Police on Tuesday said that it has arrested three Lashkar-e-Toiba associates from the Lasjan area of the city and recovered over Rs 31 lakh from their possession, officials said.
In a statement issued from Zonal Police Headquarters Srinagar Police said that three suspicious individuals, carrying a cricket kit-bag, were trying to avoid a checkpoint at Lasjan Crossing on Srinagar-Jammu highway when they were spotted by a police party during a routine checking.
“They were tactfully apprehended by the alert naka party. They have been identified as Umar Adil Dar, son of Ghulam Hassan Dar, resident of Soiteng; Bilal Asmad Sidiqi, son of Ghulam Ahmad Sididqi, a resident of Kursoo Rajbagh; and Salik Mehraj, son of Mehraj Din Dar, a resident of Soiteng,” said Police in the above referred statement.
Stating that during search of the kit-bag Umer Adil Dar was carrying, Indian currency cash amounting ? 31.65 lakh, one mobile phone and 13 pages of LeT letter pad was recovered , Police in it’s above referred statement further said that during preliminary investigation, it came to the fore that the trio were working as militant associates of LeT militant outfit , Stating therein further that money was received by them as a part of conspiracy to strengthen its cadres within district Srinagar.
In the concluding para of it’s above quoted statement police said that “ money was received by them on the directions of their Pakistan-based handlers as a part of larger a criminal conspiracy for furthering their activities and cause largescale disturbances in J&K”.