In a major shot in the arm , the Punjab Police has traced inter-state links of Hizbul Mujhahideen chief Riyaz Ahmed Naikoo, with the arrest of two accomplices of his close associate, Hilal Ahmed Wagay, from Amritsar on Wednesday. Naikoo, the Kashmir chief of the terror outfit, was gunned down in Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday. DGP Dinkar Gupta said the "duo were traced through investigations into the trail of Hizbul terrorist Hilal Ahmed Wagay, who was nabbed from Amritsar, where he had come to collect money from Amritsar on the instructions of Riyaz Ahmed Naikoo, Hizbul Commander in Kashmir Valley." Hilal was nabbed by an alert team of Amritsar Commissionerate Police, which was on patrol duty late on April 25, in Amritsar. A case has also been registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967.

Source: Mint May 07, 2020 15:22 UTC