Textiles Store Front For 'Lashkar Module' Busted In Delhi's Lajpat Nagar, 2 Arrested

Last Updated:August 06, 2025, 22:36 IST

Raids at the textiles shop blew the lid off a cross-border terror funding network linked to Pakistan-based LeT, which was allegedly pumping funds into Kashmir for terror activities

Police seized digital evidence, including communications with suspected Pakistani handlers, foreign remittances via underground hawala networks, and encrypted chats. (Image for representation)

The counter-intelligence Kashmir unit of Jammu and Kashmir police claimed to have busted a Lashkar module masquerading as a textiles store in New Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar on Wednesday.

The investigation blew the lid off a cross-border terror funding network linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was pumping funds into Kashmir for terror activities via couriers posing as pilgrims, businessmen, and expatriates, police said.

According to the police, they carried out searches at a business unit by the name of ‘Shalimar Textiles’ in Lajpat Nagar, being run by a Budgam resident identified as Mohammad Ayoub Bhat. He was posing as a trader while serving as a key financial conduit for the LeT’s terror activity in the Valley, the police said. His aide, identified as Mohammad Rafiq Shah, was also central to this covert financial operation, they said.

Police seized digital evidence, including communications with suspected Pakistani handlers, foreign remittances via underground hawala networks, and encrypted chats with terror affiliates. These devices and documents are presently undergoing forensic analysis, they said.

They said counter-intelligence teams, along with the Delhi Police, searched premises in Lajpat Nagar on warrants issued under the NIA Act. This operation is part of a broader investigation under a UAPA case.

Police further said initial questioning of the accused suggests the involvement of an international terror funding network, involving foreign-based handlers, Gulf-based sympathisers, and local overground workers (OGW).

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