LeT operative Sandeep Sharma’s arrest: ATS team in Delhi to look for contractor

The Jammu and Kashmir police had on July 10 arrested the Uttar Pradesh man, who allegedly worked as an LeT operative in Kashmir Valley.

A team of the Anti -Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Muzaffarnagar left for New Delhi on Tuesday night to look for the contractor who had facilitated the job for the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Sandeep Sharma in Jammu and Kashmir.

Police arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Sandeep Kumar Sharma, resident of Uttar Pradesh, from the same house where LeT commander Bashir Lashkari was killed on July 1, in Srinagar on July 10, 2017. (PTI)

The police have released Sharma’s brother and cousin after interrogating them. They had taken Sandeep’s brother, his cousin and a friend into custody on July 10.

After getting some important information about the contractor, the ATS team left for Delhi along with a friend of Sandeep, sources said.

Five years ago, Sandeep and his cousin had gone to New Delhi to search for jobs where they met a contractor.

The contractor reportedly sent them to Baramulla to work as welders at a power grid station. Due to family problems, Sandeep’s cousin returned to Muzaffarnagar after 15 days while Sandeep continued to work there.