The phone can be in your hands but other people, maybe a militant or sympathizer, can use the hotspot facility, said police officer, red marking the last modus operandi from a terrorist in Kashmir and warned civilians who did not suspect about the problems they could land .
Taking a serious note about the new Mo adopted by terrorists and their overground workers to escape the security radar, officials said it was wrong to use a SIM card or provide communication facilities to a terrorist through a hotspot ‘would make customers for investigations and arrests.
SIM card customers cannot hide behind the fact that they themselves do not become terrorism and their SIM cards have not been used directly by terrorists. Allowing someone’s SIM card to be used through ‘Hotspot’ is a direct obligation according to the police, an official told PTI with anonymity requirements.
The relatively new operation method was revealed during in-depth investigations on the case of terror network.
In October last year, based on intelligence input, the police arrested Mukhtar Ahmad Kumar from Pulwama Kashmir Southern District under the strict public security law (PSA) and shifted him to prison in Agra.
The problem, appeared, began when he got a SIM card in his name and gave it to his fiance in Srinagar along with a cellphone. Investigations revealed that SIM cards and devices were used by Lashkar-e-Taiba for planning a terrorist attack, officials said.
Although his fiance denied giving a call to anyone, he admitted that another woman, now in runaway, using the data, especially hotspots.
Kumar’s family, tried hard to secure his release, said in their appeal to the government that he had not been involved in any mistake. However, officials said he was picked up after intelligence agents considered his role in the terror network and alleged that he had a deep relationship with terror clothing.