NEW DELHI The NIA on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhars brother Maulana Abdul Rouf Asgar and 13 others in connection with a case pertaining to the alleged attack on an Army camp in Nagrota in Jammu on November 29, 2016.
The charge sheet was filed under various sections of Ranbir Penal Code (substitute of IPC in Jammu and Kashmir), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Foreigners Act against the accused, spokesperson of the investigative agency said in a statement.
Furthermore he said, Investigation conducted by the NIA revealed that four local Kashmiri JeM members, namely Mohd. Ashiq Baba alias Mohd. Ashaq, Syed Munir-Ul-Hassan Qadri, Tariq Ahmad Dar and Ashraf Hamid Khandey (all arrested by NIA) had facilitated a group of three heavily armed Pakistani (militants) and transported them from International Border in Samba-Kathua sector to Hotel Jagdamba in Jammu and subsequently to Nagrota in their vehicles for the attack on the November 28, 2016 on Officers Mess Complex, 166 Medium Regiment of Indian Army in Nagrota Cantonment (near Jammu).
The NIA said that Maulana Abdul Rouf Asgar, Deputy Chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad and brother of Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar, was the mastermind of the Nagrota attack.
The three Pakistani JeM militants Khalid alias Abu Hissam, Numan and Aadil, who were highly trained and equipped with AK-47 rifles and explosives carried out the attack in which seven Army personnel were killed and three were injured, it said. All the three militants were also gunned down. They left behind a Urdu note which read that the attack was a revenge for the hanging of 2001 Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.
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