Latest News | Police Attach JeM Militant's Shop in Anantnag

Srinagar, Nov 8 (PTI) Police on Wednesday attached a shop belonging to a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant, who is presently in custody for his alleged involvement in the killing of a circus worker, in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, officials said.

The shop named 'The Game Modification Point' was used for terror activities by the accused, Umar Amin Thoker, a resident of Bijbehara's Waghama area, the police said.

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Located in Zirpora on the Bijbehara-Pahalgam road, the shop has been attached under Section 25 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), according to the officials.

Police said in a notice that the property cannot be sold, leased, purchased, transferred, gifted, sublet, mortgaged or loaned without the competent authority's permission.

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Thoker and four other JeM militants were arrested in connection with the killing of Deepak Kumar (27), a resident of south Kashmir's Udhampur district, the officials said.

Thoker, who worked at a circus in Udhampur's Janglat Mandi area, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne militants from a close range on the night of May 29 this year when he had gone to the market to buy milk, they said.

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