NIA attaches properties of three persons linked to Jaish, Hizb groups
The officials said during security crackdown against banned Pakistan-based terrorist organisations, attaching properties of accused has been intensified
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached properties of accused persons linked with Jaish and Hizbul Mujahideen militant groups in Shopian, Kupwara and Pulwama districts.
The officials said during security crackdown against banned Pakistan-based terrorist organisations, attaching properties of accused has been intensified.
An NIA spokesman said the 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, and has been moving swiftly to take action in such cases.
“The NIA attached immovable properties of three accused in two different cases of terror activities involving members/cadres of proscribed terrorist organisations such as the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), among others,” said the spokesman.
In the first case, the NIA attached immovable properties of two accused — Doulat Ali Mugal and Ishaq Pala — in Herman Shopian tehsil in Kashmir under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. “Ishaq Pala, currently lodged in Agra Central Jail, was a terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr terrorist organisation, Doulat Ali Mugal was an overground worker of the proscribed HM and is currently out on bail. The former, while in Srinagar Central Jail, had conspired with his co-accused, including Riyaz Naikoo and Doulat Ali 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 state.”
“The properties attached on orders of the NIA special court include land measuring 5.5 marla and 3.5 marla, including one double storey house of Doulat Ali Mugal in Manigah village in Kupwara, and immovable property in the form of two rooms under the ownership of Ishaq Pala in Allora village of Herman tehsil in Shopian.”
The spokesman said the NIA had launched investigations into the case in February 2018, and had busted a HM module of OGWs/terrorists.
The NIA said in the second case, the agency attached immovable property of accused Fayaz Ahmad Magray, an overground worker of proscribed terrorist outfit JeM and currently lodged in Jhajjar distrcit jail in Haryana. “The property consisted of six shops constructed over land measuring 5.5 marlas in Lethpora, Pulwama, belonging to the accused. Fayaz was chargesheeted on August 1, 2018 for conspiring, along with local/Pakistani 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.”
