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| Police on tenterhooks as Hizb eyes to establish ‘sleeper cell’ in Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 25: Militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen eyes to establish a “Sleeper cell”, here in the summer capital putting the police and other security agencies on tenterhooks. Highly placed sources said police has filed a case and is trying to improve its source network in this central Kashmir district to counter the “re-emergence of militant activities.”
Though for the last around a decade, Srinagar has mostly been a “militant free district”, the “fresh and frequent movement” of militants in the city has brought a paradigm shift in the perception. Police has started to believe that the recent visit of two senior commanders of the Hizb -Wasim Malla (27) and Zakir Ahmad Bhat (25) -and posting of their pictures on social networks was “preplanned and the pictures were deliberately posted online as a part of a brain game strategy.” Malla, a second-year Bachelor of Arts student, and Bhat, with a degree in Bachelor of Technology, are the new faces of Kashmir militancy who, as per the police, want to make their presence felt in Srinagar in a “big way”.
“They want to create a sleeper cell in the summer capital only to be in news because otherwise they are in news only when they are trapped,” said a police official.
Some police officials probing the case believe the militant commanders surveyed various residential and commercial areas of the summer capital trying to cultivate a “brigade of Over Ground Workers.” “Once a sleeper cell is active, militants have a dominance in the area,” the police said.
It’s for the first time in the past around a decade that the militants eye to resume operations in the capital which has mostly been seen as militant free district. “Over the years Srinagar has been seen as militant -free district as the armed guerillas didn’t stay back here given our high quality intelligence network which gets them tracked,” said a police official requesting not to be named.
He said over the years, police developed so strong a network of sources that the moment a militant lived for a night in Srinagar, he would get trapped.
Police said over the years the militants would sneak into Srinagar only to carry out attacks on security forces and subsequently run away the same day. “Lashkar operative Abu Qasim who carried out deadly attack on Hyder Pora highway in 2013 on Army convoy fled from Srinagar instantly while same remains true for the series of grenade attacks during the recent summer. In all the cases the militants fled from Srinagar the same day. But now we apprehend they want to change the strategy,” the police official said adding “militants are concentrating on Srinagar”.
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