October 2, 2012 6:12 PM

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J&K Police busts L-e-T terror module, 6 arrested

Jammu and Kashmir Police has busted a Lashker-e-Taiba terror module which was tasked to burn down religious shrines, raising suspicion that the famous Dastageer Saheb shrine could have been set on fire by the same group.Police in Budgam district arrested 6 people, including Farooq Ahmed Mir who had travelled to Pakistan's Faisalabad in early 2012.Mir, whose confessional statement has been recorded before a Chief Judicial Magistrate, has stated that he had gone to Pakistan and the travel was facilitated by Zahoor Ahmed of Arth of Budgam district in central Kashmir.With this arrest , police claimed to have cracked three cases — burning of two shrines, including that of Baba Hanifuddin, on July 15 this year and a mosque.

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