Recovery of IED case: NIA files supplementary chargesheet against two Kashmir residents

SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet against two accused in a case pertaining to interception of one Nadeem-ul-Haq with an IED in Jammu & Kashmir.

A spokesman of the NIA said that the agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against the two accused in the case, Fayaz Ahmed Khan, son of

Mohammad Afzal Khan

of

Panzat

, and Tawseef Ahmed Wani, son of late Muhammad Maqbool Wani of Bangdara, in Baramulla, under Section 120B of the IPC and Sections 13, 18, 38, 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in the NIA Special Court of Jammu.

The case was initially registered as FIR No. 234/ 2021 at

PS Bahu Fort

, Jammu, and taken over by NIA on July 19, 2021, the statement said.

It added that the case pertains to the recovery of an IED from the accused, Nadeem-ul-Haq from Bhatindi, Jammu, who on behest of his Pakistan-based handlers of TRF, a frontal organization of the LeT, had attempted to explode an IED in a public place in Jammu area.

“Investigation has unearthed a larger conspiracy hatched by the Pakistani handlers of the TRF, involved in recruitment and planning to activate a significant number of radicalized youth through social media platforms to target security personnel and public places with an intention to wage war against the government of India. A chargesheet was earlier filed by the NIA against 3 accused persons on 22.12.2021,” it said, adding that the investigation has established that the accused duo, Fayaz Ahmed Khan and Tawseef Ahmed Wani, are members of the TRF, who in connivance with their Pakistani handlers of TRF were involved in spreading subversive activities in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir.