Jaish terrorist held while trying to flee to Saudi Arabia

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested an alleged facilitator in 2016 Nagrota Army camp attack when he was when he trying to flee to Saudi Arabia from Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi.

“There was a non-bailable warrant pending against Mohammed Ashraf Khandey and we had got issued a Lookout-Circular (LoC) against him as him. His role in the attack was revealed by accused arrested earlier in the case but he was absconding till now. On the basis of LoC he was detained at the airport while trying to flee India,” said NIA spokesman and agency’s inspector general Alok Mittal.

Khandey is a resident of village Achhan in Pulwama in the Valley and the NIA was looking for him for quite some time. He was trying to flee to Saudi Arabia via Sri Lanka.

Mittal added that Khandey was a “co-conspirator in facilitating, harboring and transporting” a group of three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists belonging to the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) who had allegedly infiltrated into India from KathuaSamba sector of Jammu and Kashmir and had carried out an attack on the 166 Medium Regiment Camp in Nagrota of Jammu on the intervening night of November 27 and 28, 2016

During investigations a well planned conspiracy was unearthed and a network of overground workers of Jaish-eMohammad was busted which was responsible in facilitating this attack.

“Three accused namely Sayeed Munir-ul-Hassan Qadri, Tariq Ahmed Dar and Ashiq Baba have already been arrested in the case and at present they are lodged in judicial custody,” he said.

“Investigation of the case is in final stages and a charge-sheet will be filed in the court in the coming days,” said Mittal.

THE ACCUSED HAD ‘FACILITATED, HARBOU RED AND TRANSPORTED’ THE TERRORISTS WHO CARRIED OUT 2016 NAGROTA ARMY CAMP ATTACK