The Union Home Ministry on Thursday declared the Islamist group The Resistance Front (TRF) as a terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). A gazette notification said the TRF came into existence in 2019 as a proxy outfit of the LeT, a proscribed terrorist organisation. LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) is a Pakistan-based Islamic terror outfit.
As per a Home Ministry notification, the organisation was recruiting Muslim youths through online mediums for the furtherance of terrorist activities and had been involved in carrying out propaganda on terror activities, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.
The notification said the TRF was involved in “psychological operations on social media platforms for inciting people of Jammu and Kashmir to join terrorist outfits against Indian State.”
It further said that Sheikh Sajjad Gul is a commander of the TRF and had been designated as a terrorist under the UAPA.
“The outfit’s activities were detrimental for the national security and sovereignty of India,” it added.
The Ministry further said that a large number of cases have been registered against the members/associates of the TRF relating to the planning of killings of security force personnel and innocent civilians of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Centre has also declared Srinagar-born Ahmad Ahanger as an individual terrorist under the UAPA. He is head of the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) recruitment cell for India and is currently based in Afghanistan.
