Four days after the Nagrota encounter in which threeJaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist were killed, Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) isnow focused on the interrogation of Sameer Ahmed Dar who was caught alive from the encounter site on January 31.

Sameer Ahmed Dar is the cousin of the February 2019 Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Dar. Sameer was nabbed by police when he was trying to escape from Nagrota after Jaish terrorists opened fire on security forces.

Top sources in the security grid discovered that Sameer Ahmed Dar had managed to establish links with Pakistan terror mastermind on"WhatsApp", using a virtual private network (VPN).

VPN allows users to circumvent internet censorship to secure connections to the sites an individual wishes to access. It was through WhatsApp that Sameer Ahmed Dar was directed by the Jaish in Pakistan.

The 2G mobile internet data was restored across 20 districts in J&K on January 25 after over five months of internet shut down. The restoration, however, disallowed the use of social media completely.

The J&K administration had issued orders restricting internet use to 301 whitelisted websites only. But the terror groups are exploiting loopholes in the system, using the dark web to launch terror attacks.

Sameer Ahmed Dar was driving the truck ferrying 3 Jaish terrorists and two over ground workers (OGW).

Sameer is a Master in Geology from Kashmir University. His arrest from the encounter site, however, comes as a huge shot in the arm for security forces in J&K.

On sustained interrogation, Sameer Ahmed Dar admitted that he used Whats App to communicate with top Jaish commanders in Pakistan.