Srinagar: Authorities here on Thursday attached the house of Al-Umar Mujahideen (AUM) Chief Mushtaq Zargar alias Latram, who along with two other militants was released in exchange of hostages of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan’s Kandahar in 1999.
The house located on 540 square feet land (Khasra No. 182) at Gani Mohalla in Nowhatta area here was attached under UAPA on the orders of the Union Home Ministry.
As per reports, NIA team, assisted by local police and paramilitary CRPF, attached the property of Latram situated in Nowhatta area of Srinagar early this morning.
Latram shot to limelight in 1989 for his role in the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
He grabbed headlines when he, along with Jaish chief Masood Azhar and Harkatul Mujahideen chief Omar Saeed Sheikh, was released in exchange of hostages of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane.
Latram was been designated as a “terrorist” under the UAPA in April last year, a move which enabled the security agencies to attach his property.
MHA in its notification said, “Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar @Latram, aged 52 years son of Late Ghulam Rasool Zargar, resident of Gani Mohalla, Jama Masjid, Nowhatta, Srinagar, is the Founder and Chief Commander of AlUmar-Mujahideen and is listed as a terrorist organisation under the First Schedule to the said Act at serial No. 9”.
It further added that, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar had been affiliated with the “Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front‟ terror outfit and had gone to Pakistan for obtaining illegal arms and ammunition training and was one of the released terrorists in the year 1999, Indian Airlines Flight hijacking crisis, in exchange of the hostages of Indian Airlines Flight IC-814.
“He has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistan to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, India; and has been involved in various terror crimes including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, planning, and execution of terrorist attacks and terror funding; Mushtaq Zargar is a threat to peace, not only to India but across the world, with his contacts and proximity to radical terrorist groups like the “Al- Qaeda‟ and “Jaish-e-Mohammed,‟ said notification by MHA.(CNS)
