Lagatar24 Desk
Srinagar, March 3: The National Investigative Agency attached the moveable property of another extremist headquartered in Pakistan a day after the house of Pakistani militant Mushtaq Zaragr, who was released in the Kandahar hijacking, was attached in Srinagar.
According to officials, Basit Reshi, the Hizbul Mujahideen commander who is currently stationed in Pakistan but is from the Sopore subdistrict of Jammu and Kashmir, had his immovable property attached.
NIA today attached property of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist, Basit Reshi, in Sopore area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district
He had executed an attack on a police guard post in Tujar Sharief area on Aug 18, 2015, in which a cop & a civilian were killed. pic.twitter.com/rSNbzFysgU
— ANI (@ANI) March 3, 2023
In October, 2022 Reshi , a resident of Yemberzalwari Shiva Dangerpora Sopore, was declared ‘designated individual terrorist’ by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
The NIA team, assisted by local police, put a notice of attachment.
“ This is to inform all the members of the public that immovable property- agriculture land measuring 3.5 marlas situated at Edipora Tehsil Zaingeer, district Baramulla J&K under the ownership of Basit Ahmed Reshi, a ‘designated individual terrorist’ under the UA(P)A, stands attached by the order of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India dated 13-2-2023,” the notice read.
The MHA, which named Reshi as a “designated person terrorist,” claimed that he was engaged in subversive operations and was organising target killings in Jammu and Kashmir.
A significant offensive by the government against extremists operating out of Pakistan the home of Mushtaq Zargar, one of the three terrorists freed as part of the 1999 Kandahar hijack prisoner swap, was seized by the NIA on Thursday. The home of Zargar, the leader of Al-Umar-Mujahideen and its founder, was situated in the Nowhatta neighbourhood of Srinagar.
