LeT militant Sandeep Kumar Sharma helped militants loot ATMs, was part of Lower Munda attack in June

Srinagar: People called him Adil, but his name was Sandeep Kumar Sharma. He knew how to offer prayers in a mosque and recite some verses from the Quran. He was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday after it busted a Lashkar-e-Taiba module. Sharma, a resident of Muzzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, moved to Kashmir in 2012 after he came in contact with a Kashmiri businessman in Patiala, sources in the valley said. [caption id=“attachment_3798439” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Police arrests LeT militant Sandeep Kumar Sharma from the same house where LeT commander Bashir Lashkari was killed on 1 July, at a press conference in Srinagar on Monday. PTI[/caption] For the last six months, he has been based in Kulgam district, obstensibly working as a welder, but actually looting ATMs. The 28-year-old man, who figured in militant chat groups as ‘Adil’, came close to the Lashker-e-Taiba terror group when he helped terrorists loot several ATMs in the valley. Soon Sharma had learnt how to offer ’namaaz’ at mosques and recite the ‘Kalima’, an oath of allegiance to the religion. But he did not convert to Islam, the sources said. From looting ATMs, he soon moved to joining terrorist operations, they said. He was a part of the terror group which carried out strikes at the army at Lower Munda, which led to the death of a personnel, the killing of Achabal SHO Feroz Dar and of five other policemen. Sharma became close to Bashir Lashker, the LeT terrorist who was killed recently, after he helped the terror group steal Rs 20 lakh from various ATMs in South Kashmir, the sources said.