The NIA said that the case related to the conspiracy of LeM acting at the behest of Jaish-e-Mohammed to carry out terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir with an intention to endanger the sovereignty, integrity and security of India. was lodged at Gangyal police station. .
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against six terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LEM) outfit, a flagship of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which is operating in Jammu and Kashmir. were planning attacks. and other parts of the country.
The chargesheet includes LeM’s self-styled chief commander Hidayat Ullah Malik and a woman Basirat-ul-Ain, both residents of Shopian in south Kashmir and Mustaq Alam, a resident of Devbahuara-Chhapra in Bihar, and his brother Javed Alam. NIA spokesperson said.
The chargesheet names Jan Mohammad Teli of Anantnag and Mudabir Manzoor of Shopian. Malik, who was arrested from Jammu’s Kunjwani area on February 6, had formed the LeM in August last year.
On 14 February, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh had termed his arrest as a major success and said that he had sent a video of NSA Ajit Doval’s Delhi office to his handler in Pakistan, implying that they were planning an attack there. Were were
The DGP had said, “Malik had created a network to procure arms from Bihar and had procured seven pistols from there and distributed them among the terrorists in the Valley.”
The NIA said that the case related to the conspiracy of LeM acting at the behest of Jaish-e-Mohammed to carry out terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir with an intention to endanger the sovereignty, integrity and security of India. was lodged at Gangyal police station. .
The NIA re-registered the case on March 2 and took over the investigation.
“The investigation has revealed that Malik was the Commander-in-Chief of the terrorist organization LeM and that he, along with his co-conspirators, was planning terrorist acts in different parts of India. The newly formed terrorist organization (LeM) is an off-shoot. Banned terrorist organization JeM,” the spokesperson said.
The NIA said that the LeM was cleverly formed to evade the scrutiny of forces and reduce international pressure on Jaish after the February 14, 2019 attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, in which over 40 jawans were killed .
“Investigation further revealed that the accused led by Malik had also committed a daylight bank robbery of Rs 60 lakh in Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Main Branch Shopian in November 2020.
The looted money was used by LeM terrorists to buy arms from Kashmir and Bihar, the spokesperson said. Malik had also conducted reconnaissance of several security installations in Jammu and Delhi and was in constant touch with his JeM masters in Pakistan.
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