The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday charged three people, affiliated with an offshoot of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), for conspiring to unleash violent terrorist attacks with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms in Jammu and Kashmir.
The accused include a Pakistani national Habibullah Malik @ Sajid Jutt @ Saifullah @ Noomi @ Numan @ Langda @ Ali Sajid @ Usman Habib @ Shani, hailing from Kasur district in Pak Punjab. He has been found to be involved in different terrorist attacks in Poonch and Rajouri districts.
Habibullah, along with Hilal Yaqooob Deva @ Sethi Soab and Musiab Fayaz Baba @ Shoaib @ Zarar, both hailing from Shopian in Kashmir, have been named in the supplementary charge sheet filed on Tuesday before the NIA Special Court in Jammu under the relevant sections of IPC and UA (P) Act, 1967.
The charge sheet follows an investigation in the case (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) registered suo moto by the NIA on June 21, 2022. The case relates to a conspiracy hatched physically as well as in cyberspace by several proscribed terrorist organisations to spread fear and terror and disrupt peace in J&K.
Investigation so far has revealed that the accused had entered into a criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks on security forces and others in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir with the intention to wage war against the government.
Habibullah Malik was an active Commander of Pakistan-based The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the proscribed LeT terror outfit. He was engaged in motivating vulnerable Kashmiri youth to join the TRF/LeT for carrying out terrorist activities in J&K.
According to the NIA investigation, Habibullah had radicalised the other two accused, Hilal and Musiab, both of whom had started working as Over Ground Workers (OGWs) for him. On Habibullah’s directions, the two OWGs had collected and transported funds and weapons from/to his other OGWs to facilitate and support terror attacks in J&K.
The entire conspiracy was found to be part of the bigger plans of the banned terrorist outfits to commit acts of terror and violence by indoctrinating local youth and mobilising OGW workers to disturb peace and communal harmony in J&K.
With the various banned terrorist organisations floating new outfits to carry out their terror related activities in J&K, the NIA has stepped up its crackdown and investigation in the region in recent months. Under the NIA scanner are outfits such as The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Ghazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. These outfits are affiliated to LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda.
The anti-terror agency has intensified its operations to prevent these outfits to revive terrorism and disturb peace and communal harmony of Jammu and Kashmir.
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