A commander and associate member of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, Sheikh Sajad has been notified as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The Ministry of Home Affairs in a notification said, Sheikh Sajad has been actively radicalizing, motivating and recruiting youth of Jammu and Kashmir to support terrorist
organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and has been involved in terror funding.
The Ministry said, Sheikh Sajad was found involved in hatching criminal conspiracy in eliminating prominent journalist along with his two personal security officers in June 2018 in Srinagar.