TIL Desk/National/Jammu/ The phone could be in your hand but another person, possibly a militant or a sympathiser, could be using its ’hotspot’ facility, say police officials, red-flagging the latest modus operandi of terrorists in Kashmir and warning unsuspecting civilians about the trouble they could land in.
Taking serious note of the new MO adopted by terrorists and their overground workers to escape the security radar, the officials said wrong use of a SIM card or providing communication facility to a terrorist through ’hotspot’ will make the subscriber of the card liable for investigation and arrest.
”SIM card subscribers cannot hide behind the fact that they themselves are not into terrorism and that their SIM card has not been used directly by the terrorists. Allowing one’s SIM card to be used through ‘hotspot’ is direct liability according to the police,” an official told on condition of anonymity.The relatively new way of operating came to light during in-depth investigation of a terror network case.
In October last year, based on intelligence inputs, the police nabbed Mukhtar Ahmad Kumar from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted him to a prison in Agra.
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