SRINAGAR In a major breakthrough in Nagrota army camp attack, the NIA on Saturday took the custody of alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri from the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with the 2016 attack on an Army camp in Nagrota in which seven soldiers, including two officers, were killed.
Qadri, a Nepal returnee who was in custody of the police for sometime, had told his interrogators about his role in various militant modules, including the group involved in the Nagrota attack.
An NIA spokesman, while appreciating the role of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, said, Qadri, a resident of Lolab in north Kashmir, was arrested for his alleged involvement in the militant attack on the Army camp on November 29, 2016, in which seven Army personnel were killed and three others injured.
Three militants were killed in the operation and a huge quantity of firearms, ammunition, explosives and other articles were seized from them, he said.
Preliminary interrogation of the accused revealed that the attack was carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), a banned terror group, in furtherance of a well-planned conspiracy from Pakistan, the spokesman said.
The accused is claimed to have told the interrogators that he along with other Valley-based JeM operatives were in touch with the JeM leadership in Pakistan and had received a freshly infiltrated group of three militants from the Samba sector a day before the attack.
They subsequently stayed at a hotel in Jammu and then left the attackers outside the army camp in Nagrota late at night, and proceeded to the Kashmir Valley, the spokesman said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered a case into the incident in December 2016 for offences under sections 120B, 121, 307 of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and sections seven and 27 of the Arms Act, 1958.
Hes Suffering From Polio, Cant Move Alone: Family
The family of a 47-year-old Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri from Kupwara on Saturday contested NIA claims regarding his involvement in Nagrota camp attack, saying he cannot move alone.
Muneers wife Shahida Begum said her husband, hailing from Khurhama Lolab in north Kashmir, was living at his brothers house at Mustafabad, Zainakote, Srinagar.
He was summoned by Parimpora police one and a half month ago. Later, he was detained at Cargo for more than three weeks, Shahida told GNS adding that he was later taken to Khanyar police station where from he was shifted to central jail Srinagar.
“We were told to get bail in favour of Muneer so that he will be released, Muneers brother said.
Shahida said her mother-in-law Syeda Bibi Khatoon, a 103-year-old woman and unable to walk, desperately wanted to meet Muneer.
A few days back, we somehow managed to take her up to the central jail gate where she was denied meeting with her son, she said adding that Muneers mother met her son twice earlier, first at Cargo then at Khanyar.
She was told that her son will be freed soon but nothing as such happened till date. She keeps looking through the window, waiting for her son to return home, she said.
The family said the police officers at Cargo and Khanyar police station told them that Muneer is being questioned and the issue is a normal one and he will be released.
Yesterday (Friday), we received a call from Khanyar police station that Muneer was being taken to Jammu court in a case related to illegal timber recovered from his friend, the family told GNS. Today we are hearing through the news that Muneer was taken to Delhi by NIA who have implicated him in a false case. The news was a shock for us especially the ailing mother.
NIAs claims that Muneer received militants, stayed along with them in a hotel in Jammu etc is baseless, Muneers mother said. He is not able to move. He is suffering from polio and his wife is doing tailoring job to manage daily affairs, the family said.
Muneer had returned from Pakistan along with his wife from Muzaffarabad via Nepal border and he according to the family was staying in Srinagar for the last several years. (GNS)
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