On Friday, the National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet against alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Bahadur Ali in the Patiala House court. The Pakistani national is accused of attempting to attack security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.
The case is related to conspiracies hatched by LeT to commit terror attacks in India, especially in Delhi and cities in Jammu and Kashmir.
The chargesheet was filed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Explosives Act, Arms Act and Foreigners Act, among other laws.
Ali was also allegedly involved in stone-pelting and causing trouble in the Valley in the aftermath of Burhan Wani’s death.
NIA’s IG Alok Mittal said Ali had been given training in Pakistan:
He was given weapons, GPS devices through which he communicated with his Pakistani handlers. There’s strong and clinching evidence on how LeT terrorists were sent across the border to India.
The chargesheet said:
Ali is a trained terrorist, practiced in the craft of reading maps using grid references and deft in communicating through wireless set by pairing mobile phone with it to avoid interception... While crossing into India on the intervening night of June 12 and 13 last year, these terrorists were equipped with arms and ammunition, navigation equipment, combat material and other articles.
The NIA’s interrogation of Ali regarding the Uri attacks, however, have not amounted to much, reported News18.
Ali, who was arrested by Indian authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on 25 July, in a confession video aired by the NIA, had said that he was trained in Pakistan. He also told police he was a Pakistani national.
He was arrested from a hideout in Yaham village in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. After his arrest, he led the police to a cache of arms and ammunitions buried in a nearby forest, the NIA said.
A fourth-class dropout, Ali had confessed in the video that he was regularly guided by a control room of terrorist groups in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, run with the help of Pakistani forces.
(With inputs from IANS)
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