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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against three terror operatives including a Pakistani national of ‘The Resistance Front’ – an offshoot of proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) – for conspiring to unleash terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir including Rajouri and Poonch districts.
SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against three terror operatives including a Pakistani national of ‘The Resistance Front’ – an offshoot of proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) – for conspiring to unleash terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir including Rajouri and Poonch districts.
The charge sheet was filed against Habibullah Malik alias ‘Sajid Jutt’, hailing from Kasur district in Pakistan’s Punjab province, and two residents of South Kashmir Hilal Yaqoob Deva alias “Sethi Soab” and Musiab Fayaz Baba alias “Shoaib Zarar” of Shopian District before the NIA Special Court here.
They were charged under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a spokesperson of the NIA said. Malik, who is known by various other names like Saifullah, Noomi, Numan, Langda, Ali Sajid, Usman Habib and Shani is involved in various terrorist attacks in the Poonch and Rajouri districts of the Jammu region, the official said.
The supplementary charge sheet follows investigations in the case registered suo-motu by the NIA on June 21 2023. The case relates to a conspiracy hatched “physically as well as in cyberspace” by various proscribed terrorist organisations to spread fear and terror and disrupt peace in Jammu and Kashmir by carrying out attacks using sticky bombs, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and small arms.
“Investigations so far have revealed that the charge-sheeted trio had entered into a criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks on security forces and others in Jammu and Kashmir to wage a war against the Union of India. Malik was an active commander of Pakistan-based TRF,” the NIA spokesperson said. The official said Malik was engaged in motivating vulnerable Kashmiri youth to join the TRF and LeT for carrying out terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
The spokesperson alleged that Malik had radicalised Hilal and Musiab, both of whom had started working as Over Ground Workers (OGWs) for him. On Malik’s directions, the two OWGs had collected and transported funds and weapons among his other OGWs to facilitate and support terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, the NIA spokesperson said.
“The entire conspiracy was found to be part of the bigger plans of the banned terrorist outfits to commit acts of terror and violence by indoctrinating local youth and mobilising Over Ground Workers to disturb peace and communal harmony in Jammu and Kashmir,” the NIA spokesperson said.
Various banned terrorist organisations are floating new outfits to carry out their terror-related activities in Jammu and Kashmir. As per sources, the NIA has stepped up its crackdown and investigations in the region in recent months. Terrorist outfits under NIA include TRF, United Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind, Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. These outfits are affiliated with the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda.
