JALANDHAR: Three Kashmiri students were arrested from an educational institute on the outskirts of Jalandhar on Wednesday morning, allegedly with weapons, including an assault rifle and explosives. They were arrested in a joint operation by the Punjab police and special operations group (SoG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police.Punjab DGP Suresh Arora said that the three were part of a module of the Kashmiri terror outfit, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) and were nabbed from the hostel of CT Institute of Engineering Management and Technology at Shahpur village. Sources added that this is the first time in at least a decade that Kashmiri students have been arrested with explosives and weapons in Punjab. The cops refused to give details about the kind of explosives they found on the students.The weapons were found in the hostel room of Zahid Gulzar , a resident of Rajpora in Srinagar. He was a second semester B Tech (civil engineering) student. He was arrested along with Mohammed Idriss Shah alias Nadeem and Yusuf Rafiq Bhatt, both of whom are residents of Pulwama ‘Pak ISI expanding arc of militancy’This is the second arrest in a week of young Kashmiri men with alleged terror links in Punjab. On October 2, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir police had picked up a student, who belonged to Shopian, from Banur in Patiala where he was studying at a polytechnic.He was arrested for his alleged links with Adil Bashir Sheikh, a Jammu and Kashmir special police officer who had fled with seven rifles from the house of a PDP MLA and joined Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.Arora added that the latest arrests followed inputs about the presence and activities of certain militant organizations and individuals operating in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. The students have been booked under various sections of the Arms Act, Explosive Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in a case registered at Jalandhar’s Sadar police station. They have been remanded to police custody for 10 days by a magistrate.The DGP also said, “Busting of the AGH terror module, and the recovery of weapons in Jalandhar, is indicative of efforts by Pakistan’s ISI to expand the arc of militancy on India’s western border,” he said.

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