Activist had informed police about attack

An RTI activist in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur town, about 350 kilometres from here, had informed the police officials about an impending terrorist attack in Kashmir about ten days ago.

According to reports, activist Maroof Khan (name changed) had been informed about “an attack” in Kashmir by one of his Facebook friends, who lived in Oman, a country in the gulf.

The girl, who originally hailed from Patna in Bihar, had informed Maroof that several Pakistanis lived in her neighbourhood and that she had heard them talking about attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.

“The girl told me that a man named Irfan Yunus, who was a resident of the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), had been sending money to terrorists in the region,” the RTI activist said. “Irfan hailed from Barnala village in Mirpur in PoK,” Khan said quoting the girl.  He said the girl had also given him her cell number and that she had spoken to the police.