Having banned the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-terror JKLF, the centre has tightened the noose around the sympathisers of terrorists and those involved in terror-funding by setting up a “Multi-Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group” (TMG) for synergised and concerted action against such elements in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Home Ministry, on Friday evening, issued the order of setting up the TMG under the chairmanship of the additional director general of police, CID, J&K police that would identify leaders of organisations and “hardcore sympathisers” among government employees, including teachers, who are providing covert and overt support to terrorism.

The TMG will meet on a weekly basis and submit the action taken report regularly.

Officers of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), CBI, National Investigation Agency (NIA), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) will be the members of the TMG.

The Home Ministry order said that the TMG would ensure synergised and concerted action against terror financing and other terror-related activities in Jammu and Kashmir. It is pertinent that the leaders of political and other organisations, government employees and teachers supporting terrorists will be on the radar of the TMG.

It is worth mentioning that the Army chief, General Bipin Rawat, had recently said that some teachers were engaged in radicalising the students at the school level.

The TMG has been set up at a time when the centre was adopting a tough approach towards terrorists and those involved in funding terrorism. About a dozen separatists and businessmen were already in jail as the NIA has claimed to unearth their terror links.

The TMG has been mandated to take coordinated action in all registered cases that relate to terror, terror financing and terror-related activities and bring them to a logical conclusion.

It would identify all key persons, including leaders of organisations, who are involved in supporting terrorism in any form and take concerted action against them. The TMG would also investigate the networks of various channels being used to fund terror-related activities and take coordinated action to stop the flow of such funds.