Sparing no one, Delhi Police detains JeM operative Sajjad Khan, a close aide to Pulwama mastermind

New Delhi, March 22: Pledging to take action and giving justice to those who sacrificed their life for the nation, India has done a commendable job by detaining the culprits and eliminating the terrorists. After more than a month to the Pulwama terror attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad which killed 40 CRPF jawans in Jammu and Kashmir, the special cell of the Delhi police arrested JeM operative Sajjad Khan from the capital’s Red Fort area late on Thursday night.

 

Sajjad Khan, a close associate of Pulwama attack mastermind 23-year-old Mudassir Ahmed Khan, who had been eliminated by the army earlier this month, was nabbed from the Red Fort area, where he had been masked as a shawl seller, police officials confirmed. The crackdown comes as part of a series on ongoing operations in Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi, with Mudassir Khan being the latest to be gunned down.

The Pulwama attack took place on 14 February with JeM operative Adil Ahmad Dar ramming an explosive-packed SUV into a CRPF convoy along the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama’s Lethpora.

At the same time, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) cracked down on separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik, in the valley, under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). The probe agency also imposed a penalty of ₹14.40 lakh on them for illegally possessing foreign exchange amounting to $10,000.