BSNL employee in Sopore turns out to be a Hizbul mole

Published: Friday, Dec 23, 2011, 9:00 IST
By Ishfaq-ul-Hassan | Place: Srinagar | Agency: DNA

 
A BSNL employee has turned out to be a militant mole planted by Hizbul Mujhadeen to secure SIM cards and WLL phones for regenerating the outfit�s communication network in apple-rich town of Sopore in north Kashmir district of Baramulla.
Police have arrested Sajad Ahmad Dar working with BSNL Sopore as contractual employee for providing 10 SIM cards and one WLL connection to Hizbul Mujhadeen militants.�
�The accused, is a contractual employee with BSNL and IT expert, has been working for Hizbul Mujahideen for about one year�, said Mir Imitiyaz Hussain, Superintendent of Police, Sopore.
The modus operandi of the accused included securing SIM cards and WLL connection on fake names and addresses which was in turn supplied to militants.
Ahmad was carrying the illegal activity in connivance of some other accused that are yet to be arrested.� A case� has been registered and investigation has begun.
This is, however, not the first time that militant attempt to secure SIM cards has been unearthed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Thousands of SIM cards were deactivated by various mobile service providers in J&K this summer after reports surfaced about these being used by militants for communication.
A private mobile service provided disabled over 10,000 SIM cards in the state in 2007 after intelligence agencies tipped them off about these being used by the militants.