Kashmir, Dec 10: The house of designated terrorist Ashiq Nengroo, built on encroached government land, was demolished today at the New colony, Rajpora in Pulwama in Kashmir.

Earlier, in the month of April this year, the Central Government  declared Kashmiri JeM operative and accused in the February 2019 Pulwama attack Ashiq Ahmed Nengroo as a “designated terrorist” under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

“â€Ĥit is imperative, in view of the danger which the said Ashiq Nengroo poses to the security of India, and in order to deter him from perpetrating terrorism not limited to India, that he shall be designated as a terrorist under the provisions of the said Act,” a gazette notification issued earlier by the Ministry of Home Affairs said.

In its chargesheet in the Pulwama attack case, NIA had said that after infiltration, Umer Farooq — key Pakistani planner and attacker in the case — and his associates were received by Pulwama resident Ashaq Ahmed Nengroo who was waiting for them near the river Bein in Jammu. He then transported them to Kashmir in his truck.

According to the government notification, Nengroo, 35, is one of the Commanders of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad which is banned under UAPA.

“Nengroo has been involved in infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, who have been responsible for inflicting various terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir â€Ĥafter running a terror syndicate in Kashmir, the said Ashiq Ahmed Nengroo is now engaged in a perilous campaign to orchestrate terror in Jammu and Kahmir, remote controlled from Pakistan,” the notification said.

According to the notification, Nengroo had been involved in the cases related to killing of one police personnel in Pulwama in 2013; killing of one civilian in 2020 and terror funding and illegal supply of weapons to terrorists.

 

The Centre had amended the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 in August 2019, to include the provision of designating an individual as a terrorist. Prior to this amendment, only organizations could be designated as terrorist organizations.

In first orders under the new Act, in September 2019, government had declared LeT’s Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, JeM’s Masood Azhar and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists.

Designation as a terrorist helps the government freeze finances and Crack down on networks created by the individual terrorist.

Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the UAPA empowers the Central Government to notify the name of an individual in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act, if it believes that he is involved in terrorism.

 

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