Challan filed against 3 Hizb men from Doda
Those chargesheeted by SIA include two men operating from Pak & son of one of them who was held at Srinagar airport
JAMMU: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has filed a chargesheet against three Hizb-ul-mujahideen terrorists from Doda, including a father-son duo before the special court of the NIA here in Jammu.
The agency in its investigations also unearthed a larger sinister design of Pakistan and the so-called “misguided youth”, who on valid travel documents travel to Pakistan on the pretext of pursuing professional courses but reach terror camps to get arms training and wage “jihad” against India.
The charge-sheet was produced against Asif Shabir Naik, a resident of Kashtigarh in Doda, his father Shabir Hussain Naik, alias Khalid Shabir, currently operating from Pakistan, and Safdar Hussain, alias Ehsan of Marmat village in Doda, who too is based in Pakistan.
“The investigation started on November 7, 2021, and conducted over last about six months assumes importance in the context of the government’s strategy to identify J&K residents who are hiding in Pakistan and coordinating terrorist and secessionist activities from across the border,” said an official spokesperson.
Asif Shabir Naik was intercepted at the Srinagar airport while trying to escape to Pakistan on the basis of intelligence inputs that he had been visiting Pakistan posing as a student studying there. “But he actually had been visiting terrorist and separatist training facilities, suggested the intelligence input,” he said. “While Asif Shabir Naik was arrested on October 24, 2021, and is in judicial custody, the other two accused, especially the mastermind Shabir Hussain Naik and his associate Safdar Hussain hiding in Pakistan, have been charge-sheeted under Section 299 of CRPC as absconders,” said the spokesperson.
“Painstakingly conducted investigation unearthed a story of a father, who escaped to Pakistan illegally and climbed the ladder of seniority in the Hizbul Mujahideen headed by Syed Salahuddin and came to be the media adviser looking after the propaganda cell of the terror outfit,” he said.