SIA to problem letters rogatory to request Pakistan court docket for information on actions of three Hizbul terrorists

By PTI

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency will use the “tool of letter rogatory” and request a court docket in Pakistan for details about three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, two of whom are hiding in that nation, and coordinating secessionist actions within the union territory, officers mentioned.

The probe company on Monday filed a cost sheet in a NIA particular court docket in opposition to Asif Shabir Naik, a resident of Kashtigarh in Doda, his father Shabir Hussain Naik alias Khalid Shabir, at the moment working from Pakistan and Safdar Hussain alias Ehsan of Marmat in Doda, who can be primarily based in Pakistan, they mentioned.

While Asif Naik is in judicial custody, his father and his affiliate Safdar Hussain are hiding in Pakistan and have been designated absconders, an SIA spokesman mentioned.

The officers mentioned that as Asif Naik’s keep in Pakistan was for nearly three years, the key a part of the investigation pertains to the territory of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

During his visits, Asif Naik had stayed together with Shabir Naik and Safdar Hussain in Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) camps, they mentioned.

“Even when common place knowledge suggests that Pakistan authorities would not co-operate in assisting this legally mandated investigation, it was thought prudent and legally warranted to use the tool of letter rogatory and request the Pakistani court of law through the laid down channel seeking information about activities of Asif while in Pakistan”, the spokesman mentioned.

Similar, letters of rogatory associated request have been initiated pertaining to Shabir Naik, a HM media advisor, and Safdar Hussain, who’re hiding in Pakistan, he mentioned, including that the endeavours are being made to get some extra proof.

According to the 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 pupil learning there, the officers mentioned.

He was truly visiting terrorist and separatist coaching services there, prompt the intelligence inputs, the spokesman mentioned.

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

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

He used his keep in Pakistan to satisfy his father and in addition endure coaching in sabotage and subversion, it mentioned.

“Asif Naik’s interrogation in the context of the 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 mentioned.

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

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

It mentioned it’s suspected that the target of Asif Naik’s admission, as a pupil 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.