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27/1/2018
PUNE (KASHMIR):
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radicalised Pune-based teenage girl was detained by the Jammu and Kashmir
Police following an intelligence input that she wanted to join banned ISIS
terror group, police said.
The girl identified as Sadiya Anwar Shaikh, who turned 18 in
November last year, had come from Pune and was staying in Bijbehara as a paying
guest and planning to join the ISIS, the police have claimed. However, during
her extensive questioning, the school dropout turned out to be having radical
thoughts, who had fallen prey to false propaganda on social networking site
about alleged suffering of the Kashmiri people at the hands of security forces,
the officials said.
The state police have got in touch with her mother and aunt
and she will be handed over to them as there is no case pending against the
detained girl either in the Valley or Maharashtra, they said. It was a case of
misinterpreting an intelligence input by the Jammu and Kashmir police who were
informed by central security agencies that a Pune-based girl, who was detained
on various occasions by the ATS Pune, had shifted her base to the Valley and
that surveillance needs to be mounted.
However, Additional Director General of Police Munir Khan, who
is functioning as Inspector General of Police Kashmir range, issued an alert to
all districts naming her and claiming she was a suicide bomber planning to
disrupt the Republic Day function. The note signed by Khan said that
"there is a strong input" that an 18-year-old non-Kashmiri woman
might "cause a suicide bomb explosion" near or inside the Republic
Day parade in Kashmir.
"All are directed to please ensure that frisking of
ladies at the (venues) is done meticulously and with utmost caution so as to
thwart the designs of ANEs (anti-national elements)," the note, circulated
on January 23, read. Today, after understanding the gravity of the faux pas,
Khan refused to give any details and said, "We will be talking to her and
we will be talking to our sister agencies. We will be covering every other lead
to know what the facts are. After doing a proper investigation, we will come to
any conclusion."
Shaikh had been questioned by the Pune Anti-Terrorism Squad in
2015 when it came to notice that she had been radicalised after coming in
contact with ISIS supporters abroad. She was planning to travel to Syria, the
ATS had then claimed. The woman, a Class 11 student at a Pune college, was
subsequently sent for a de-radicalisation programme by the ATS.
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