Indian police arrest youth in Srinagar city
Srinagar: Indian forces’ personnel have arrested a youth in Srinagar city of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian police arrested the youth, Aqib Ahmad Butt, during a search operation at Moti Mohalla Crossing on Boulevard Road in the city.
A police official said that the individual was moving from Moti Mohalla towards Boulevard Road when he attempted to flee. The naka party chased and tactfully apprehended him. During his personal search, some substance was recovered, police claimed.
Meanwhile, earlier Indian police arrested another Kashmiri youth, Sabir Ahmed Mir, in the Abotani Colony area of Itanagar in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The youth was arrested on information provided by a detained Kashmiri, Nazir Ahmad Malik, who had been taken into custody on November 22 from a rented house in Ganga village under Chimpu Police Station in the same state, the Indian police claimed.
Indian police, justifying the detention of the youth, have claimed that “credible and actionable” intelligence inputs indicated their involvement in espionage activities, including transmitting sensitive military information related to army and paramilitary movements in Arunachal Pradesh.
