DGP Singh made these revelations in a news conference over the arrest of self-styled chief commanders Hidayatullah Malik and Zahoor Ahmad Rather, respectively of terror outfits Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LeM) and The Resistance Front (TRF).

Malik was arrested on February 6 by the Anantnag police from Kunjwani in Jammu district while Rather was apprehended on February 13 from Bari Brahmana area of Samba district. The UT's police chief said these two groups, LeM and TRF, are frontal organisations of Pakistan-based JeM and Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) to give "Kashmiri name' to their terror activities. "Malik has been leading LeM floated last August although he had been an active militant for a long time. He had worked as an overground worker and floated the group on the directions of JeM," said Singh. Malik was also planning to set up a base in Jammu to carry forward terror activities in the region besides receiving arms and ammunition, being smuggled from Pakistan through underground tunnels on the border or being dropped by drones before being smuggled to Kashmir, he said. Singh said JeM was involved in various terror activities in 2018 and Malik's interrogation revealed that he was also a close associate of JeM commander Ashiq Nengroo who used to receive arms consignments from Pakistan in Jammu before escaping to the neighbouring country along with his family through an underground tunnel on the international border.

The BSF has detected six underground tunnels along the IB in Jammu region over the past six months. After escaping to Pakistan, Nengroo alias doctor had been directing terror activities in Kashmir at the behest of Pakistani agencies, said the DGP, adding that Malik visited Delhi on Nengroo's orders and forwarded him a video of the NSA's office after recceing it. That means JeM is planning attacks on targets in Delhi as well, he said, adding that Malik's arrest is a big breakthrough for police as it has exposed the terrorist group's plan. Malik, a resident of south Kashmir, had also set up a network to get weapons from Bihar and sourced seven pistols from there till now and got them distributed among militants, the DGP said. "He had also roped in some students from Kashmir, studying in Punjab, and had been using them for any action in Kashmir or Jammu or transporting weapons from outside," said Singh. In this context, the DGP also cited the example of a Kashmir-based nursing student in Chandigarh college who was arrested along with a 7kg improvised explosive device from Jammu's general bus stand area.

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