Punjab police nabs Hizbul Mujahideen activist Hilal Ahmed Wagay, says DGP
Chandigarh/UNI: A Hizbul Mujahideen activist has been arrested and Rs 29 lakh were seized from his possession, police said.
Stating this here on Sunday, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta said that the arrested activist of Hizbul Mujahideen was identified as Hilal Ahmed Wagay of Nowgam, falling in Avantipura police station of Pulwama district of Kashmir.
The DGP 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.
An FIR under sections 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (Amendment 2012) has been registered in Sadar police station, Amritsar City.
Divulging details, Mr Gupta said that preliminary interrogation revealed that Hilal Ahmed had been sent by Riyaz Ahmed Naiku of Bijbehara, Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir, to collect money from an unidentified person from near Metro Mart Amritsar in his truck.
The DGP said that the money was delivered to him by unknown person, who came on a scooter. The person accompanying him in the truck has been identified as Rayees Ahmed of Bijbehara in Anantnag district of Jammu & Kashmir, he added.
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