The Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF), which has been fashioned with cadres from terrorist organizations along with the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, changed into on Friday banned below the stringent anti-terror law, officers stated here. In a separate notification, a resident of Punjab, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, changed into declared a terrorist with the aid of using the Ministry of Home Affairs, they stated. According to a notification issued with the aid of using the ministry, the JKGF has been concerned in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling, terror assaults withinside the Union territory, and threats to safety forces.
The JKGF attracts its cadres from diverse proscribed terrorist organizations, along with the Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and others, the house ministry stated. Sandhu alias Rinda, who hails from Punjab however is presently primarily based totally in Lahore and related to the banned organization Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), has been declared a terrorist. Sandhu is claimed to be one of the masterminds in the back of an assault at the intelligence headquarters of the Punjab Police in 2021.
A Red Corner Notice changed into additionally issued towards him with the aid of using the Interpol. The domestic ministry stated the JKGF has been the usage of diverse social media structures to incite the human beings of Jammu and Kashmir to sign up for terrorist clothing towards India. The terror organization is damaging to country wide safety and the sovereignty of India and is concerned in terrorism. It has dedicated and took part in diverse acts of terrorism withinside the country, the ministry stated.
In exercising of powers conferred with the aid of using the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the JKGF has been specific as an apprehension organization, the notification stated. The ban could be powerful to JKGF and all its manifestations and the front organizations. The JKGF is the forty third organization to be declared outlawed below the anti-terror law.
The domestic ministry similarly stated Harwinder Singh Sandhu has direct hyperlinks with Pakistan-primarily based totally terrorist corporations and is likewise concerned in cross-border smuggling of arms, ammunition and militant hardware, except tablets on a big scale. He changed into concerned in diverse crook offences like murder, try to murder, agreement killing, theft and extortion in Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the ministry stated.
Singh is now the 54th person to be specific as a terrorist with the aid of using the authorities. Last month, the relevant authorities had banned proxy organizations of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad and declared 4 people as terrorists.
