In a joint operation, the Punjab Police and the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested three students and busted a module of the Kashmiri terror outfit Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) in Jalandhar.
The students were nabbed from the hostel of CT Institute of Engineering Management and Technology, located in Shahpur on the outskirts of Jalandhar, Director General of Police Suresh Arora said in a statement.
The joint team, which conducted a raid at the hostel early on Wednesday morning, also seized two weapons, including an assault rifle, and explosives from the hostel room of a second-year B.Tech student, Zahid Gulzar, a resident of Rajpora, Srinagar.
Zahid was arrested along with Mohd. Idriss Shah alias Nadeem, resident of Pulwama, and Yusuf Rafiq Bhatt, resident of Noorpura, Pulwama.
The DGP said the arrests followed the development and corroboration of various leads/inputs about the presence and activities of certain militant organisations/individuals operating in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
A case has been registered in PS Sadar Jalandhar in this regard.
Further investigations are in progress and the Punjab Police is working closely with the Jammu and Kashmir Police to unravel the entire conspiracy and networks built by these outfits/individuals in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, said the DGP.
He said the busting of the terror module belonging to AGH and the seizure of weapons in Jalandhar was indicative of efforts by Pakistan's ISI to expand the arc of militancy on India's western border.
Gazi Ahmad Malik, resident of Shopian, was recently picked up by the Punjab Police from Banur, Patiala, where he was studying in Aryans Group Polytechnic College.
Gazi was closely related to Adil Bashir Sheikh, a Jammu and Kashmir Police special police officer who had fled with seven rifles from the residence of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA in Srinagar and was suspected to have joined Hizbul Mujahideen, a militant group.
Gazi was later handed over to the Jammu and Kashmir Police for further investigations.
