Cobwebs of local mainstream politics-cross border narcotics-militant financing- secessionism

Jammu: Following arrest of former minister Babu Singh for receiving slush money sent from valley to activate anti India secessionist activities in Jammu region last year, several investigators have been simultaneously working on different lines at different places following multiple leads crisscrossing terror financing modules, narcotics syndicates and separatist networks with intersections partly within J&K and partly in Pakistan and some in middle eastern capitals.
According to a statement issued from Police Media Centre, PHQ Jammu, the key accused identified as Mohd. Sharief Chechi wanted in NarcoMilitancy /Militant Funding case FIR 73/23 PS Gandhi Nagar/SIA Jammu was arrested by SIA Jammu from Uri, Baramulla.
The Police statement reads “the brief facts of the case are that a case FIR No. 73/2022 was registered at Police Station Gandhi Nagar Jammu, and subsequently one Mohd. Shareef Shah was arrested along with huge amount of narco terror money, on the allegations that they were working under the directions of ISI and their agents in Pakistan for the purpose of financing Jammu based separatists to carry out subversive activities against the sovereignty, integrity and security of India”.
Stating that later on, the instant case was transferred to SIA Jammu for further investigation, Police in it’s above referred statement further said “following investigation, it was revealed that there is a well organized drug syndicate, including Mohd. Sharief Chechi, Mohd Rafiq Najar, and Farooq Ahmad Naikoo operating from Dubai and others who are infusing narcotics into the Indian territory for generating militant funds, to fuel subversive activities challenging the sovereignty, integrity and security of India and further using banking channels for layering of proceeds of narcotics for funding of militancy in J&K.
In it’s statement Police further said “During investigation it was revealed that the modus operandi adopted is that Mohd. Sharief Chechi used to collect narcotics from across LOC viz Pak Administered Kashmir (PaK) and these narcotics were used to generate proceeds for militant funding” , adding that “upon technical surveillance and human intelligence, a team of SIA led by Insp Vikas Sharma arrested Mohd. Sharief Chechi from Uri, Baramulla on August,25 this year.
Stating that further investigation into aspects of cross LOC operation of this narco smuggling and militant funding syndicate found smuggling arms, explosives and narcotics consignments across the LOC is ongoing at SIA Jammu, Police in the concluding para of it’s above quoted statement said that the team of SIA involved in the arrest includes Insp Vikas Sharma, ASI Satish Parihar and Sgct. Shatter Singh.