Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 28: The National Investigation Agency today produced a charge sheet against seven militants in a narco-militancy case in Handwara area of North Kashmir.
The NIA said that it filed supplementary charge-sheet against seven arrested accused persons- Showkat Salam Parray son of Abdul Salam Parray resident of Parray Mohalla, Sumbal, Bandipora, Asif Gul son of Ghulam Mohammad Alwaie resident of village Kanispora, District Baramulla, Altaf Ahmed Shah son of Mohammad Afzal Shah resident of village Dangerpora, district Ganderbal, Romesh Kumar son of Thoru Ram resident of village Vijaypur, district Samba, Mudasir Ahmed Dar son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar resident of village Wanduna, District Shopian, Amin Allai alias Hilal Mir son of Hazi Ghulam Mohi-u-Din Allie resident of Near Petrol Pump, Shan-e-Kashmir National Highway Sangam, Tehsil and PS Bijbehra, district Anantnag and Abdul Rashid son of Mohammad Abdullah Badan resident of village Amrohi, Tanghdar, Kupwara in RC-03/2020/NIA/JMU under Section 8 read with 21, 25 and 29 of NDPS Act, 1985; section 120B of IPC and sections 17, 38 and 40 of UA (P) Act, 1967 in NIA Special Court, Jammu.
The statement further stated that the case was initially registered in Police Station Handwara as case FIR no. 183/2020 dated 11.06.2020 wherein during checking of vehicles at Kairo Bridge, Handwara, accused Abdul Momin Peer was intercepted by the police naka party while coming from Baramulla to Handwara in his Hyundai Creta vehicle.
During search of the vehicle, cash amounting to Rs. 20,01,000 and 2 kgs of heroin was recovered and seized. Further interrogation of Abdul Momin Peer led to recovery of 15 kgs of Heroin and cash amounting to Rs. 1.15 Crores. NIA had re-registered the case as RC-03/2020/NIA/JMU on 26.06.2020 and taken over the investigation.
The spokesman further stated that Investigation has established that seven charge sheeted accused persons were part of a deep-rooted conspiracy for procuring and selling narcotics drugs and generating funds in J&K and other parts of India in close association with operatives of banned militant outfits, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), based across the border in Pakistan. The funds so generated were pumped for furtherance of militant activity in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir through a network of Over Ground Workers (OGWs). NIA had earlier filed charge sheet against 6 accused persons on 05.12.2020 in this case.
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