NIA attaches properties of 3 accused in Kashmir linked with Pakistan-based terrorist outfits

The NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused in two different cases of terror activities involving members and cadres of proscribed terrorist organisations like the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), among others.

New Delhi:The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached properties of three accused linked with various banned Pakistan-based terrorist organisations in Kashmir. The NIA has stepped up its vigil against terrorist outfits, their affiliates, agents and overground workers (OGWs) by conducting raids on properties of terror suspects and accused across locations, and has been moving swiftly to take action in such cases.

The NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused in two different cases of terror activities involving members and cadres of proscribed terrorist organisations like the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), among others. In the first case, NIA attached the immovable properties of two accused, Doulat Ali Mugal and Ishaq Pala, in Herman Shopian tehsil in Kashmir under the UA(P) Act.

While Ishaq Pala, currently lodged in Central Jail Agra, was a terrorist of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)/Al-Badr terrorist organisation, Doulat Ali Mugal was an overground worker of the proscribed HM and is currently out on bail. “The former, while in Central Jail Srinagar, had conspired with his co-accused, including Riyaz Naikoo and Doulat Ali Mugal, and assisted Danish Ghulam Lone and Suhail Ahmad Bhat to cross the border from Kupwara Sector to join terror ranks and wage a war against the State. Accused Doulat Ali Mugal had provided logistic support to accused Danish Ghulam Lone and Suhail Ahmad Bhat at Kupwara when both were about to cross the LoC,” the NIA said.

The duo was charge-sheeted by the NIA on February 22, 2019, and charges were framed by the NIA Special Court Jammu on August 6, 2019. The properties attached on orders of NIA Special Court, include land measuring 5.5 Marla and 3.5 Marla under survey Nos 1,597 Min and 1598 Min, including one double-story building of accused Doulat Ali Mugal located at Manigah village in Kupwara and immoveable property in the form of two rooms under the ownership of accused Ishaq Pala at Alloravillage, tehsil Herman in Shopian.

The NIA launched investigations into the case in February 2018 and busted an HM module of OGWs /terrorists. Others arrested and charge-sheeted in the case were Danish Ghulam Lone, Suhail Ahmad Bhat and Feeroz Ahmad Lone, while a key conspirator, Reyaz Ahmad Naikoo, a top terrorist of the Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed in an encounter with the security forces.

In the second case, the agency attached the immovable property of accused Fayaz Ahmad Magray, an overground worker of the proscribed terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and currently lodged in District Jail Jhajjar, Haryana. The property consisted of six shops constructed over land measuring 5.5 Marlas under survey No. 2,664 Min at Lethpora, Pulwama.

Fayaz was charge-sheeted on August 1, 2018, for conspiring, along with local/Pakistani terrorists of JeM, to execute a Fidayeen attack on CRPF group centre Lethpora, Pulwama. He carried out a recce of the CRPF centre, and provided logistic support to JeM terrorists before and after the attack.

During the attack, two terrorists, Fardeen Ahmad Khandey and Manzoor Ahmad Baba, along with one Pakistani Abdul Shakoor, were killed inside the CRPF group centre Lethpora. Other key conspirator terrorists identified Mudassir Khan and Sajjad alias Mufti Waqas (Pakistan), were killed in subsequent encounters. The NIA launched investigations in February 2018 into the criminal conspiracy to commit acts of terror and violence in Kashmir. Its investigations led to the busting of a module of overground workers of JeM.