Pulwama Attack : After Long Delay NIA Files 13,500 Page Chargesheet , JeM’s Masood Azhar Among 19 Named

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National Investigation Agency has finally filed a chargesheet in a special court against 19 people including Masood Azhar, the chief of banned terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, for planning the suicide operation. The attack took place on February 14, 2019.

Leading the investigation into the “blind case”, as seven accused wanted in it were killed during different encounters in 2019, a team led by joint director of the NIA Anil Shukla gathered evidences and statements of terrorists and their sympathisers arrested in different cases in order to expose the conspiracy hatched for executing the audacious attack on the para-military convoy, officials said in report by a news agency.

The 13,500-page chargesheet names Masood Azhar, his brothers — Abdul Rauf and Ammar Alvi — and his nephew Mohammed Umer Farooq, who had infiltrated into India in 2018 and was subsequently killed in one of the encounters in South Kashmir.

According to security forces, Farooq had entered India in late 2018 using the natural caves at the Sambha sector in Jammu region along the international border.

The chargesheet says suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar was driving the car laden with 200 kg of explosives and had prepared his last video at Shakir Bashir’s residence in Pulwama on a high-tech phone brought by Bilal Ahmed Kuchey.

While Dar is now dead, both Bashir and Kuchey have been arrested.

The explosive laden car, which was driven by Bashir initially before he handed it over to Dar, was rammed into a bus carrying CRPF personnel from Jammu to Srinagar at Lethpora in Pulwama district of South Kashmir on February 14, 2019.