Naveed
shifted from Srinagar to Jammu for remand
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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SRINAGAR, Aug 10: National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is investigating the August 5 fidayeen attack on a convoy of Border Security Force (BSF) near Samroli, Udhampur, has shifted the captured Lashkar-e-Tayyiba militant Naveed from Srinagar to Jammu on Monday.
While as a suspected Pakistani militant of LeT, Noman and two BSF soldiers had died and 12 more BSF personnel sustained injuries in the suicide strike, Naveed, purportedly from Pakistan, had been captured alive.
Within hours of Naveed’s arrest and registration of FIR at Police Station of Udhampur, Government of India had assigned the high profile investigation to NIA, brushing aside mild resistance from the State political executive and DGP K rajendra Kumar. On August 6th, Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order and appointed NIA’s SSP Atul Kumar Goel as the Chief Investigating Officer.
After two days of sustained questioning at Joint Interrogation Centre at Miran Sahab, NIA shifted Naveed to Srinagar where over a dozen persons have been confronted with the detainee and held for questioning. According to official sources, On August 6th evening, a militant hideout was raided by security forces at Kakpora in Pulwama district on Naveed’s identification. LeT’s very important local militant Talib Shah died in the gunbattle, though a Pakistani commander, Dujana, who is next only to the LeT operations chief Qasim, however, escaped.
Sources said that NIA, in coordination with J&K Police was on the lookout for a businessman, whose shop is in Lalchowk, who, according to Naveed handed over Rs 5 lakh to Dujana before the militants set off for the Udhampur fidayeen attack. “Search is still underway for at least six persons who have been identified by Naved as conduits, collaborators and functionaries of the jihadist outfit.
Sources said that NIA would produce Naveed before the Presiding Officer of its special court in Jammu for remand of custodial interrogation before formally taking around a dozen of suspects into custody.
Under an extraordinary security cover, Naveed was carried on Monday from Rajbagh Police Station to Srinagar Airport in a cavalcade of at least seven vehicles including an armoured bunker. Security forces had laid siege to a particular area on Srinagar airport wherefrom Naveed was flown to Jammu at 2.30 pm by an Air India flight.
Meanwhile, two to three militants of LeT attacked Army, travelling in two private Tata Sumos from Lajora to Awantipora air base near Ratnipora on Monday evening. Troops cordoned a particular area but all the militants are believed to have escaped.
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Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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SRINAGAR, Aug 10: National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is investigating the August 5 fidayeen attack on a convoy of Border Security Force (BSF) near Samroli, Udhampur, has shifted the captured Lashkar-e-Tayyiba militant Naveed from Srinagar to Jammu on Monday.
While as a suspected Pakistani militant of LeT, Noman and two BSF soldiers had died and 12 more BSF personnel sustained injuries in the suicide strike, Naveed, purportedly from Pakistan, had been captured alive.
Within hours of Naveed’s arrest and registration of FIR at Police Station of Udhampur, Government of India had assigned the high profile investigation to NIA, brushing aside mild resistance from the State political executive and DGP K rajendra Kumar. On August 6th, Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order and appointed NIA’s SSP Atul Kumar Goel as the Chief Investigating Officer.
After two days of sustained questioning at Joint Interrogation Centre at Miran Sahab, NIA shifted Naveed to Srinagar where over a dozen persons have been confronted with the detainee and held for questioning. According to official sources, On August 6th evening, a militant hideout was raided by security forces at Kakpora in Pulwama district on Naveed’s identification. LeT’s very important local militant Talib Shah died in the gunbattle, though a Pakistani commander, Dujana, who is next only to the LeT operations chief Qasim, however, escaped.
Sources said that NIA, in coordination with J&K Police was on the lookout for a businessman, whose shop is in Lalchowk, who, according to Naveed handed over Rs 5 lakh to Dujana before the militants set off for the Udhampur fidayeen attack. “Search is still underway for at least six persons who have been identified by Naved as conduits, collaborators and functionaries of the jihadist outfit.
Sources said that NIA would produce Naveed before the Presiding Officer of its special court in Jammu for remand of custodial interrogation before formally taking around a dozen of suspects into custody.
Under an extraordinary security cover, Naveed was carried on Monday from Rajbagh Police Station to Srinagar Airport in a cavalcade of at least seven vehicles including an armoured bunker. Security forces had laid siege to a particular area on Srinagar airport wherefrom Naveed was flown to Jammu at 2.30 pm by an Air India flight.
Meanwhile, two to three militants of LeT attacked Army, travelling in two private Tata Sumos from Lajora to Awantipora air base near Ratnipora on Monday evening. Troops cordoned a particular area but all the militants are believed to have escaped.
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