NIA attaches properties of three men for militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency NIA on Wednesday attached the properties of three persons for their alleged involvement in militancyrelated activities in the Kashmir Valley officials saidThe central agency has stepped up its vigil against terrorist outfits their affiliates agents and overground workers OGWs by conducting raids on properties of terror suspects and accused across locations in Kashmir they saidThe NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused in two different cases of terror activities involving members or cadres of proscribed terrorist organisations like Hizbul Mujahideen HM and JaisheMohammad JeM among othersIn the first case immovable properties of two accused Doulat Ali Mugal and Ishaq Pala were attached in Herman in Shopian district under the UAPA Act the NIA saidWhile Pala currently lodged in central jail Agra was a terrorist of HMAlBadr organisation Mugal was an overground worker of the proscribed HM and is currently out on bail it saidThe NIA said Pala while in central jail Srinagar had conspired with his coaccused including Riyaz Naikoo the HM commander killed in an encounter with security forces in May 2020 and Mugal and assisted Danish Ghulam Lone and Suhail Ahmad Bhat to cross the border from Kupwara sector to join terror ranks and wage a war against the stateAlso readDecks cleared for commencement of trial of Kathua gangrapemurder accused Shubam Sangra at Punjab courtMugal had provided logistic support to accused Lone and Bhat at Kupwara when both were about to cross the LoC it saidThe duo was chargesheeted by the NIA on February 22 2019 and charges were framed by NIA Special Court Jammu on August 6 2019The properties attached on the orders of NIA Special Court include land measuring 55 marlas and 35 marla one doublestorey house of Mugal located at Manigah village in Kupwara and immoveable property in the form of two rooms under the ownership of Pala at Allora village in Shopian the NIA saidThe agency said it had launched investigations into the case in February 2018 and had busted a HM module of OGWsterroristsOthers arrested and chargesheeted in the case were Danish Ghulam Lone Suhail Ahmad Bhat Feeroz Ahmad Lone while key conspirator Reyaz Ahmad Naikoo a top terrorist of the Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in an encounter with the security forces the NIA saidIn the second case the agency attached the immovable property of accused Fayaz Ahmad Magray an OGW of JeM and currently lodged in district jail Jhajjar HaryanaThe property consisted of six shops constructed over land measuring 55 marlas at Lethpora Pulwama the NIA saidMagray was chargesheeted on August 1 2018 for conspiring along with localPakistani terrorists of JeM to execute a fidayeen attack on CRPF Group Centre Lethpora Pulwama He carried out a recce of the CRPF centre and provided logistic support to JeM terrorists before and after the attack it saidDuring the attack two terrorists Fardeen Ahmad Khandey and Manzoor Ahmad Baba along with one Pakistani Abdul Shakoor were killed inside the CRPF Group Centre Lethpora Other key conspirator terrorists namely Mudassir Khan and Sajjad alias Mufti Waqas Pakistani were killed in subsequent encounters the agency saidThe NIA launched investigations in February 2018 into the criminal conspiracy to commit acts of terror and violence in KashmirThe investigations led to the busting of a module of OGWs of JeM Besides Magray other accused arrested in the case were identified as Nissar Ahmad Tantray Syed Hilal Andrabi and Irshad Ahmad Reshi the agency said adding all of them were subsequently chargesheetedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever