'Terrorists using J&K women for...': police on new tactic as burqa-clad attacker is caught

Days after a woman was caught on camera, throwing a petrol bomb in Jammu and Kashmir, she has reportedly been apprehended. The alleged perpetrator has been identified as Hasina Akhtar, a resident of Baramulla.

She is allegedly associated with the banned women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, led by Asiya Andrabi. Hasina Akhtar was allegedly the person wearing a burqa who hurled a Molotov cocktail at a CRPF camp in Sopore on March 29.

The petrol bomb did not cause any damage to life or property, but the perpetrator managed to flee. After two days, and searches across Sopore and Handwara, Akhtar was caught.

The case has highlighted a new tactic by terrorist groups to use women to carry out attacks, as per the police. Women are being used either as attackers, or as couriers by terrorist groups in the Union Territory.

Two burqa-clad women had helped terrorists during an attack on the residential guard of a BJP worker in 2021, as per Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Range) Vijay Kumar. Some more such women are on the police's radar, the IGP was quoted as saying.

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