NIA files chargesheet in connection with attacks on Jalandhar police station

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

The NIA filed a chargesheet against two Kashmiri men in connection with grenade attacks at a police station in Maqsudan, last year, officials said Monday.

In the four attacks that took place on September 14, 2018, one police personnel had sustained splinter injuries, they said.

The agency had arrested Fazil and Shahid Quyoom, the residents of Jammu and Kashmir's Awantipora, on November 8, 2018, they said.

An NIA said the two had carried out the attacks with Rouf and Ummer Ramzan to wage a war against and further the conspiracy to destabilise the law and order situation in

"While Pinchoo and Quyoom were studying at St Soldiers Institute, Jalandhar, Rouf and Ummer Ramzan had travelled from Awantipora to on September 13, 2018 to take part in the attack," he said.

Probe revealed that the four had allegedly targeted station with and under a conspiracy by Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), led by its alias Zakir Musa, to target security installations in the country, he said.

"All the accused persons are cadres of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), a Kashmir-based terrorist outfit with a Pan-Islamic ideology," the said.

The NIA alleged Bashir and Quyoom had collected four hand grenades from an unknown cadre of AGH near Verka Plant, on September 9, 2018.

On September 13, 2018, Rauf Ahmed Mir and Ummer Ramzan travelled from to Chandigarh on a private airlines flight and to Jalandhar by road, the NIA alleged.

They did a recce of potential targets on September 13 itself and after selecting the police station building, attacked it at around 7:5 pm on September 14, 2018.

After the attack, they left for Kashmir, the said.

Three accused, Rouf Ahmed Mir, Ramzan and Rasik Ahmed Mir, were killed during an encounter between the AGH cadres and security forces on December 22, 2018 at Arampora village in Awantipora, he said

"The chargesheet has been filed in the Special NIA Court, Mohali, against Fazil and ?Further investigation continues with respect to the other accused, including Zakir Musa," he said.

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First Published: Tue, May 07 2019. 00:00 IST