NIA files chargesheet against 6 in J&K BJP leader, brother killing
The Parihar brothers were shot at point-blank range outside their house in Jammu’s Kishtwar on Nov 1, 2018
JAMMU: The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a chargesheet against six people, including three slain Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorists and three arrested overground workers of the terror group for providing support to Pakistan-based terrorists to kill BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother Ajeet Parihar in Jammu’s Kishtwar.
The chargesheet was filed in the special NIA Court, Jammu against the six under Sections 302, 120B, 109 and 34 of the Ranbir Penal Code, Sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 38, 39 and 40 of the UA(P) Act and Section 25(1A) and 25 of the Arms Act. The Parihar brothers were shot at point-blank range outside their house on November 1, 2018, when they were returning home after closing their shop.
Initially, a case was registered by the Jammu police. It was later taken over by NIA.
During the investigation, accused Nisar Ahmed Sheikh, Nishad Ahmed Butt and Azad Hussain Bagwan, all residents of Kishtwar were arrested in November 2019.
Thy had provided logistic support to the three terrorists— Osama-bin-Javid, Haroon Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain, who had killed the Parihar brothers.
The investigation unearthed the larger conspiracy of these terrorists and the overground workers of Hizb who were attempting to revive terrorism in the Doda region. These terrorists not only carried out the murder of Parihar brothers but also carried out three other terrorist acts in Kishtwar in 2019.
Osama-bin-Javid, Haroon Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain were killed during different encounters between the Hizbul Mujahideen cadres and security forces in Ramban and Doda districts in September 2019 and January this year. Investigation continues against Jahangir Saroori and others involved in the case.