Terror outfit The Resistance Front (TRF) has issued a seven-point warning against the ongoing demolition drive in Jammu and Kashmir. The terror group threatened it would “kill and target anyone” who “owns or drives” the bulldozers or JCBs being used in the anti-encroachment drive and anyone working for the revenue department.
In the threat letter, terror group said properties of its supporters were razed and the officials remained “mute spectators”. The terror outfit said it would “target and kill” anyone working for the revenue department or whose machinery was used in the demolition drive.
“…from peon to the clerk to Patwari, Naib Tehsildar or Tehsildar or DC. Involved or not. Whosoever is working in this department (revenue) is on the Target List,” TRF’s warning stated.
In an attempt to provoke the public, the outfit even urged the general public to ‘burn down’ the houses of perpetrators, who, according to the TRF, are officials of the government. The terror group, which is an off-shoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) said that it would back these attacks and take the onus of these attacks.
“…and the guys doing it will be welcomed into Resistance Fighters ranks,” the terrorist group said.
It further said that J&K’s revenue department employees would be “targeted by every possible means”.
The Resistance Front (TRF) said that its fighters have already been given a green signal to carry out such acts against Indian government officials, who it deemed as ‘traitors’.
DEMOLITION DRIVE IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR
The house of a designated Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant, Ashiq Nengroo, allegedly built on encroached government land, was demolished by authorities on Saturday at the New colony in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Nengroo is a commander of the proscribed terror outfit JeM and an accused in the Pulwama attack.
Nengroo’s two-storey house at New Colony in Rajpora was demolished by the district administration in the presence of police, officials told news agency PTI. Nengroo was declared as a “designated terrorist” by the central government in April this year.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday bulldozed a one-storey building at Lewar village in Pahalgam that belonged to terror group Hizbul Mujahideen’s commander, Amir Khan.
Nearly 23,000 hectares of state and ‘kacharai’ land were retrieved during the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in different districts of the Jammu division recently. The major chunk of 13,793 hectares of land was retrieved from encroachers in Rajouri, followed by over 6,100 hectares in Poonch, over 2,300 in Kishtwar, 15.9 hectares in Udhampur and some parcels in Kathua and Samba districts so far.
Recently, Democratic Azad Party (DAP) chief Ghulam Nabi Azad met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to apprise him of “land eviction issues” in Jammu and Kashmir.