NEW DELHI: The crime branch of the Delhi police has arrested four leading Kashmiri militants from the walled party of the city, who had allegedly come to the capital to “indulge in subversive activities.”
The four are also top functionaries of the Jammiat-E-Islami (JEI), a recently banned organization and were in the fore front of anti-national and secessionist activities in the Kashmir valley, police sources said.
The sources identified Gulam Mohammad Bhatt of Sopore in Baramulla, former chief of the JEI and at present chairman of the Falihiaam Trust which runs about 250 schools in Jammu and Kashmir.
The second militant is Gulam Mohammad Mir, also from Baramulla and is secretary of the trust. The other two are Assadullah Mir and Abdul Rashid.
The sources said one reason the militants arrived in Delhi on March 30 was the pressure built up by the security forces in the valley and on the Indo Pak border.
They stayed at a hotel on their arrival here and later shifted to a rented house in the walled city.
Delhi police launched a manhunt when Kashmir police told Delhi police about their involvement in several cases in the valley.
The sources said the four militants were also involved indoctrination of youths in subversive activities.
Asadullah Mir was earlier editor of newspaper “‘Greendome” and correspondent of an international news agency, and a now banned newspaper, ‘‘Aajan”. At present he is an executive member of Majlis E Shoora, an apex body of JEI, the sources said.
Abdul Rashid, an old hand in politics is a prominent leader of the JEI.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 27, 1990
