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National Investigation Agency
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Monday filed its chargesheet successful the April 22 Pahalgam panic attack case, naming 7 accused, including Pakistan-based panic outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its offshoot,
The Resistance Front
(TRF).Also Read | Intelligence agencies show enlargement of violent infrastructure successful POKThe anti-terror bureau presented the chargesheet earlier the NIA Special Court successful Jammu. The 1,597-page chargesheet besides names Pakistani handler Sajid Jatt, on with 3 Pakistani terrorists killed by information forces during Operation Mahadev astatine Dachigam successful Srinagar successful July. They person been identified arsenic Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran, and Hamza Afghani.
Further, the chargesheet has arraigned the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF) arsenic ineligible entities for their relation successful planning, facilitating and executing the Pahalgam assault.It comes astir 7 months aft the bureau arrested 2 men for harbouring the terrorists who carried retired the deadly attack.The duo — Parvaiz Ahmad Jothar and Bashir Ahmad Jothar — had reportedly disclosed the identities of the 3 equipped terrorists and confirmed that the attackers were Pakistani nationals affiliated with the proscribed LeT.According to NIA investigations, Parvaiz and Bashir had knowingly sheltered the 3 terrorists earlier the attack.
Pahalgam onslaught and Operation Sindoor
On April 22, heavy equipped terrorists changeable dormant 26 civilians — each men — including a section nonmigratory and a tourer from Nepal, successful Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley.Also Read | Army displays Turkish drone utilized by Pak during Op Sindoor; was going to deed JalandharAfter announcing a bid of diplomatic measures, India responded with Operation Sindoor, carrying retired airstrikes connected violent infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir connected May 7. The strikes triggered aggravated cross-border clashes that were halted aft Islamabad sought a ceasefire connected May 10.
