Three suspected terrorists detained by Sashastra Seema Bal

Three suspected terrorists were detained on Wednesday by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at the Rupiadeeh check post on the Indo-Nepal border.

Acting on a tip off that three suspected terrorists, who had once worked for Hizbul Mujahideen and JKLF, have arrived through a Pakistani airlines flight in Kathmandu on June 3 and would be entering the country from Rupaideeh, SSB personnel detained the them this afternoon, Deputy Commandant of SSB, Mitul Kumar said.

SSB guards the 1,751 km Indo-Nepal border. The three, who have been identified as Mohammad Akbar Lone, Mohammad Shafiq Bar and Manzoor Ahmed Jargar, are from Barmullah and Kupwara areas of Kashmir, he said. During interrogation, the trio said they were on their way to their home state to surrender under a scheme of Jammu and Kashmir government, the deputy commandant said. They said that during the '90s they had gone over to Muzaffarabad from Kashmir and started living there and had also acquired a Pakistani passport.

They are being extensively interrogated by teams of SSB, police, state and central Intelligence and security agencies, he added.