Jammu: The NIA Monday filed a comprehensive chargesheet against six people and two terrorist organisations, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and its shadow outfit TRF, in connection with the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 25 tourists and a local pony operator.
The 1,597-page chargesheet, filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before a special court, details the deep conspiracy traced back to Pakistan, which the probe agency said has been “unabatedly sponsoring terrorism against India”.
The NIA has named Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) headed by Hafeez Saeed, who has been designated as a global terrorist by the US as well as India, along with The Resistance Front (TRF) headed by Habibullah Malik alias Sajid Jatt, in the chargesheet for their role in planning, facilitating, and executing the Pahalgam attack that took place in the Baisaran meadows April 22 this year.
“Pakistani handler terrorist Sajid Jatt is also named as an accused in the chargesheet, filed before the NIA special court, Jammu,” a statement issued by the anti-terror agency said.
The chargesheet also names the three Pakistani terrorists, who carried out the killings on religious lines April 22 at Baisaran meadows in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. All three were killed by the Army during Operation Mahadev at Dachigam, located in the outskirts of Srinagar July 29, almost 100 days after the deadly terror attack.
The three were identified as Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran, and Hamza Afghani, the NIA statement said.
In its chargesheet, the NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India.
The agency’s eight-month-long “meticulous scientific probe” led to the chargesheet.
Two accused persons, Parvaiz Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, who were arrested June 22 for harbouring the terrorists, have also been named in the chargesheet by the NIA.
During interrogation, the two men had disclosed the identities of the three armed terrorists involved in the attack, and had also confirmed that they were Pakistani nationals affiliated to proscribed LeT terror outfit.
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