The J&K Police on Thursday arrested a Ph.D. scholar from south Kashmir’s Kulgam for his alleged role in “motivating, funding and providing logistic support to the gullible youth of the district and adjoining areas to recruit them into terrorist ranks”.
The police identified the scholar as Rubani Bashir, a resident of Ashmuji, Kulgam. “Bashir is a Ph.D. scholar at the Central University of Kashmir and has also applied for a job as assistant professor there,” the police said.
The police said Dr. Bashir was arrested following specific information generated by the Kulgam police. “It was a search for a code-named person with the alias Dr. Sabeel, who was motivating, funding, and providing logistic support to gullible youth. A special checkpoint was established at Ashmuji and Dr. Rubani was apprehended,” the police said.
