J&K: Police arrest 30 in a week for giving SIMs to militants

The arrests travel amid a spate of attacks successful Jammu part wherever much than 50 Army unit person been killed successful the past mates of years. The past fewer months person besides seen a spurt successful encounters successful the Valley.

“Recently inspections crossed aggregate districts, including Srinagar, Ganderbal, Anantnag, Budgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Bandipora, Samba and Kishtwar person been conducted to guarantee strict adherence to cognize your lawsuit (KYC) norms and due documentation by SIM paper vendors. These measures purpose to forestall unauthorised issuance of SIM cards and support the integrity of connection networks,” said a J&K constabulary officer.

Sources said cards belonging to 30 radical had been acquired by militants implicit the past year.

According to different elder J&K constabulary officer, militants earlier utilized SIM cards nether fake names since KYC norms successful the Valley were not precise strict. In 2021-22, arsenic panic activities began shifting towards the Jammu division, constabulary began getting SIM paper vendors to verify the biometrics of the purchaser.

“This stopped the usage of fake SIM cards. Terrorists past started utilizing overground workers to get SIM cards. These workers would typically get it from a person oregon acquisition SIMs successful their sanction and springiness it to terrorists. Local militants, successful galore cases, utilized the SIM cards of their wives oregon different relatives, putting them successful occupation later,” the serviceman said.

Sources said that constabulary person not taken coercive enactment successful cases wherever the registered SIM idiosyncratic was unaware of its amerciable use. “However, if a SIM paper utilized by a violent is successful your name, the instrumentality volition instrumentality its people and you are going to look sizeable trouble,” the serviceman said.

Police are focusing connected besides creating consciousness among the nationalist truthful that they bash not manus their SIM cards to others.

“Police person appealed to the citizens to beryllium cautious with the SIM cards issued successful their names. If immoderate specified paper is recovered to beryllium utilized by terrorists and different organised transgression gangs, strict ineligible enactment volition beryllium taken against them,” said the officer.