NIA files charge-sheet against 7 militants in Handwara Narco-Militancy case

Srinagar, Aug 28 (KNS): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday said that it filed a chargesheet in special NIA court in Jammu against seven militants involved in Handwara Narco-Militancy Case 

In a statement, issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS), a spokesperson said that yesterday NIA filed supplementary charge-sheet against 07 arrested accused persons namely Showkat Salam Parray son of Abdul Salam Parray pf Parray Mohalla, Sumbal, Asif Gul son of Ghulam Mohd Alwaie of Kanispora, Baramulla, Altaf Ahmed Shah son of Mohammad Afzal Shah of Dangerpora, Ganderbal, Romesh Kumar som of Thoru Ram of village Vijaypur, Samba, Mudasir Ahmed Dar son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar of village Wanduna, Shopian, Amin Allai alias Hilal Mir son of Haji Ghulam Mohi-u-din Allie of Anantnag and Abdul Rashid son of Mohammad Abdullah Badan of Tanghdar, Kupwara in RC-03/2020/NIA/JMU under sections 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 case was initially registered in PS 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 in the vehicle cash amounting to Rs. 20,01,000/- and 2 Kgs of Heroin was recovered and seized,” reads the statement.

It reads that 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.”

It reads that investigation has established that above 07 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-Taiba (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 & Kashmir through a network
of over ground workers (OGWS). NIA had earlier filed chargesheet against 06 accused persons on 05.12.2020 in this case,” the statement reads, adding that further investigation in the case is going on. (KNS)

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