Fake Indian documents, Pakistani documents and passports were recovered (representative)
Lucknow:
The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Thursday arrested three men near the Nepal border for allegedly planning to “commit terror activities in India”, officials said.
The trio consisted of two Pakistani nationals and were carrying fake Indian IDs, an ATS statement said. “Following intelligence information that some terrorists with the aim of committing terror activities in India will enter through the Indo-Nepal border, a team of Gorakhpur ATS unit was put on alert. The unit arrested three suspects on Thursday while they were entering India through the Indo-Nepal border,” the statement said.
The suspects have been identified as Mohammad Altaf Bhatt, a resident of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Sayyed Gajnafar, a resident of Islamabad, and Nasir Ali, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, the report said.
The trio was arrested at the Indo-Nepal border at Sonauli in Maharajganj district, the statement said.
Altaf Bhatt came into contact with Gajnafar in Kathmandu, where they were given forged Indian documents, including Adhaar cards. They then met Ali, who was tasked with getting Bhatt and Gajmafar to Kashmir via the Indo-Nepal border, the statement said.
“Mohammad Altaf Bhatt told ATS officials that he was trained at a Hizbul Mujahideen camp in Muzaffarabad with the support of ISI with the intention of liberating Kashmir from India. Bhatt was on his way to Jammu and Kashmir on the instructions of the ISI to carry out terror activities,” the statement said.
The ATS has recovered fake Indian documents, Pakistani documents and passports from their possession, the officials said.
An FIR has been registered against the trio under Sections 420 (cheating), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121A (waging or attempting to wage or instigating war against the Government of India) of the Indian Penal Code. Further investigation is ongoing, they said.
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