LeT Terrorist Fled to Indonesia Using Forged Passport from Jaipur; J&K Police, Central Agencies Widen Crackdown on Inter-State Network

BuzzBytes News Desk
Srinagar/New Delhi, Apr 12: Widening its crackdown on the inter-state network of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, the Jammu and Kashmir Police, in coordination with central intelligence agencies, has detained several people from Haryana and Rajasthan for allegedly facilitating the acquisition of fraudulent identities, including passports, by terrorists, officials said on Sunday.
The detained persons provided critical logistical support to terrorists by making documents like Aadhaar, PAN cards, and even voter cards. The investigation was spearheaded by the Srinagar Police, which generated the entire intelligence. However, as the scale of the operation and its wider security ramifications became clear, the case was immediately escalated to involve central agencies and police forces of other states to dismantle the network spanning multiple areas of the country.
One of the terrorists, identified as Umar alias ‘Kharghosh’ (rabbit), had managed to procure a passport and has since fled to Indonesia, from where he is believed to have used another forged travel document and stationed himself in a Gulf country, the officials said. Umar, a resident of Karachi in Pakistan, had infiltrated into India after 2012 and fled using the forged passport procured from Jaipur in Rajasthan in 2024.
These details emerged after Srinagar police busted a “deep-rooted” interstate LeT module and arrested five people, including a Pakistani terrorist, Abdullah alias Abu Hureira, who had been on the run for 16 years and had successfully established bases outside the Union Territory. The arrest of Abdullah, along with another Pakistani national Usman alias Khubaib, was another major success for Srinagar police that comes six months after the dismantling of a “white-collar” terror cell centred at Faridabad’s Al Falah University linked to the November 2025 Red Fort blast case.
During interrogation, Abdullah told his interrogators about his and Umar’s footprints across India, especially in Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, which included a marriage ceremony solemnised by the escaped terrorists with the daughter of a terror sympathiser in Kashmir. The operation, which began on March 31 and was monitored by Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat, who camped in Srinagar, has unveiled the funding and financial pattern of the LeT. The terrorists used forged documents and identities to create a network not just in Jammu and Kashmir, but in several other states.
Three Srinagar residents — Mohammad Naqeeb Bhat, Adil Rashid Bhat, and Ghulam Mohammad Mir alias Mama — were among the five arrested. They are accused of providing shelter, food and logistical support to the terrorists. The elaborate network began to unravel on March 31 when Naqeeb Bhat was arrested from Pandach along with a pistol and other incriminating material. During his questioning, Bhat told police that he was a part of the LeT and procured arms and ammunition from another associate, Adil Rashid of Zakoora, and also provided support to foreign terrorists. From Bhat, police were led to Mir and Rashid Bhat, both active associates of LeT in Srinagar, and various hideouts were also busted in forested areas in and around Srinagar.
The two Pakistani terrorists are categorised as ‘A+’ grade militants, and officials said they infiltrated India approximately 16 years ago and remained active across various districts of the Kashmir Valley, “commanding around 40 foreign terrorists” over the years, most of whom have since been neutralised. Incriminating material seized from several hideouts included three AK-47 rifles, one AK-Krinkov rifle, pistols, hand grenades, electronic equipment and gadgets.
This unearthing of the interstate LeT module comes nearly six months after the action against the ‘Al Falah module’ in November 2025 by Srinagar police, which had unravelled a network comprising highly educated professionals, mostly doctors, who had been radicalised to carry out terrorist activities. One of the accused was Al Falah University’s Dr Umer-un-Nabi, who was driving the explosives-laden car that detonated outside the Red Fort on November 10 last year, killing more than a dozen people. He had earlier made unsuccessful attempts to join terror groups in 2016 and 2018. Officials did not rule out the possibility of placing some of the detained persons under arrest, especially those who helped in procuring the passport and other documents fraudulently.