Top Hizbul Mujahideen harbourer and logistics provider arrested from Jammu and Kashmir

He is arrested in a case pertaining to snatching of service rifle from escort in-charge of the District Magistrate of Kishtwar.

NIA released a statement that reads, "Yesterday (17.02.2021), NIA arrested a terrorist harbourer and logistics provider of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen namely Taraq Hussain Giri s/o Late Ghulam Hassan Giri r/o Pochhal, Police Station, District Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir in case RC-08/2019/NIA/JMU (snatching of service rifle from escort in-charge of DM Kishtwar).”

The accused was produced before the Special NIA Court, Jammu, and taken on police remand for five days for further examination.

The case was initially registered in Kishtwar on March 8, 2019, under sections 392 RPC, sections 7, 25, and 30 of Arms Act, and sections 16,18 20, and 23 of UA(P)Act relating to snatching of service weapon from escort in-charge of District Magistrate, Kishtwar.

This incident of weapon snatching was one of the four incidents of terror acts committed by HM terrorists in the period from November 2018 to September 2019, it added. 

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