JAMMU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against three Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorists in a case relating to a conspiracy to revive militancy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said.
The three accused were nabbed by the security forces during an encounter in 2019 where they had gunned down three other Hizbul terrorists. They were produced before the NIA Special Court in Jammu on Friday.
The chargesheet against Jaffer Hussain of Hunjalla and Taraq Hussain Giri of Pochhal in Kishtwar and Tanveer Ahmad Malik of Tantna in Doda district was filed before a special court in Jammu, a spokesperson of the NIA said.
The charges will be abated against the other three terrorists involved in the conspiracy — Osama Bin Javed alias Osama, Haroon Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain alias Zahid — who were killed in different encounters with security forces between 2019-2020.
“Hussain, Malik and Giri were providing logistics support and organising shelter for the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists involved in the multiple terrorist incidents,” news agency PTI quoted the NIA spokesperson as saying.
The case was initially registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in March 2019 at Kishtwar Police Station in connection with the snatching of a service weapon — an AK-47 — of the escort in-charge of DC Kishtwar. The NIA re-registered the case nearly eight months later, in November 2019.
The three accused provided logistical support and organised shelter.PTI
