NIA Chargesheet: Jaish-e-Mohammed's hand in Pulwama attack

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet in the terrorist attack in Pulwama, Kashmir, India.

According to the charge sheet, the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, active on the Pakistani soil, is behind this attack.

However, the Pakistani government or any of its institutions is not named in the charge sheet.

On 14 February 2019, CRPF convoy in Pulwama was rammed by terrorists in a vehicle full of explosives in which more than 40 soldiers were killed.

According to Srinagar-based BBC correspondent Riaz Masroor, the NIA has filed a charge sheet of 13,800 pages.

The agency has named Jaish's chief Masood Azhar, his brother Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar and one of his deputy Maroof Asghar as the main perpetrators.

Masood Azhar is one of the three terrorists who were released by the then Vajpayee government in exchange for the release of passengers of the Indian aircraft IC-814, abducted by terrorists operating in Pakistan.

The names of 20 people have been taken in the charge sheet which helped to create intrigue, or intrigue, or to execute that plot on the ground.

The chargesheet includes the names of Omar Farooq, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Tariq Shah, Mohammad Abbas Nasir, Mohammad Iqbal, Waiz ul-Islam, Ishan Jan, and Bilal Ahmed.

According to the chargesheet, Masood Azhar's nephew Mohammed Omar Farooq was a bomb making expert who crossed the LoC in 2018 and entered Kashmir in India. Omar Farooq was given local help by Iqbal Rather.

Adil Dar's name is also included in the charge sheet. The charge sheet states that Omar Farooq, with the help of the local people, produced such a large-scale explosive that Adil Dar had loaded into the vehicle and crashed into the CRPF convoy.

Adil Dar was killed on the spot, but out of the 20 people named in the charge sheet, seven were later claimed to have been killed by security forces in separate encounters.

According to news agency PTI, seven people have been arrested and four people are still absconding.