CHANDIGARH, APRIL 26: In a major breakthrough, the Punjab Police has arrested an activist of Hizbul Mujahideen with a recovery of Indian currency worth Rs. 29 lakh from his possession.
Disclosing this here today, Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the arrested activist of Hizbul Mujahideen was identified as Hilal Ahmed Wagay s/o Abdul Samad Wagay r/o Nowgam, falling in Avantipura Police Station of Pulwama district of Kashmir.
The DGP further pointed out that Hilal was nabbed by the alert team of Amritsar Commissionerate Police, which was on patrol duty on mobike late evening on April 25 near metro mart in the city.
A FIR no. 135 Dated 25.4.2020 U/S 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (Amendment 2012) has been registered in Police Station Sadar, Amritsar City.
Divulging details, the DGP said that preliminary interrogation revealed that Hilal Ahmed had been sent by Riyaz Ahmed Naiku r/o Bijbehara, Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir, to collect money from an unidentified person from near Metro Mart Amritsar in his Truck no. JK-03-F-2261.
Gupta said that the money was delivered to him by unknown person, who came on a white Activa. The person accompanying him in the truck has been identified as Rayees Ahmed r/o Bijbehara in Anantnag district of Jammu & Kashmir, said the DGP.
