SIA information chargesheet towards three Hizbul terrorists

By PTI

JAMMU: The State Investigation Agency on Monday filed a cost sheet towards three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, together with two working from Pakistan, for coordinating terrorist and secessionist actions in Jammu and Kashmir, officers stated.

The cost sheet has been filed in a case registered on November 7 final yr and investigation was carried out over the past about six months, they stated.

This assumes significance within the context of the federal government’s technique to establish Jammu and Kashmir residents who’re hiding in Pakistan and coordinating terrorist and secessionist actions behind the scene from throughout the border, the officers stated.

The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has filed the cost sheet in a particular court docket of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) towards Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorists Asif Shabir Naik, a resident of Kashtigarh in Doda, his father Shabir Hussain Naik alais Khalid Shabir, at the moment working from Pakistan, and Safdar Hussain alais Ehsan of Marmat in Doda, who can also be based mostly in Pakistan, an SIA spokesman stated.

According to the SIA cost sheet, Asif Naik was intercepted on the Srinagar airport whereas he was making an attempt to return to Pakistan.

There have been intelligence inputs that he had been visiting Pakistan posing as a scholar learning there, the officers stated.

He was really visiting terrorist and separatist coaching amenities there, prompt the intelligence inputs, the spokesman stated.

While Asif Naik is in judicial custody, the opposite two — Shabir Naik and his affiliate Safdar Hussain — are hiding in Pakistan and have been designated absconders, he stated.

The SIA carried out investigations have resulted in unearthing of a narrative of a father, who crossed into Pakistan illegally, and climbed the ladder of seniority within the Syed Sallauddin-led HM.

He then grew to become the media advisor taking care of the propaganda cell of the phobia outfit, the officers stated.

The investigation revealed brazen and egregious misuse of journey paperwork by Pakistani businesses, the cost sheet stated.

In this case, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen with “blessings” of Pakistani businesses gave the quilt of studentship to Asif Naik.

He used his keep in Pakistan to fulfill his father and likewise endure coaching in sabotage and subversion, it stated.

The SIA, which went into all facet of the cross-border terror community of recruitment’s, stated that the forensics of the Asif Naik’s cellphone gadgets confirmed that he had videographed military installations alongside the Baramula-Srinagar street.

He had additionally photographed the entry street to the airport and security measures adjoining to it.

The cost sheet stated that whereas the visa on Asif Naik’s passport confirmed that he’s a customer, however immigration information indicated he was a scholar.

“Asif Naik’s interrogation in the context of digital evidence revealed that Pakistan had arranged his admission at the International Islamic University in Islamabad in a mass communication programme as cover and simultaneously facilitated his internship in the media cell of the HM run by his father”, the spokesman stated.

The investigation revealed that Asif Naik had fully hid that his father was in Pakistan and a senior determine within the HM and near the chief of Syed Sallauddin, he stated.

He had falsely talked about that he was visiting Pakistan to fulfill a relative, the cost sheet stated.

It stated it’s suspected that the target of Asif Naik’s admission, as a scholar in a mass media course in Pakistan, was that he would to return to India as a journalist, clandestinely get embedded within the system and obtain directions on planning, coordinating and executing not solely propaganda operations however separatist and even violent terrorist actions.

But for the movies in his mobile phone the latter a part of the adversary agenda wouldn’t have surfaced, the spokesman added.