Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it arrested an Over Ground Worker of Jash-e-Mohammad militant outfit from Pulwama district over Sunjwan encounter near an army installation in Jammu in which a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer and two foreign militants were killed.
“(On May 25) NIA arrested one accused person namely Abid Ahmad Mir son of Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, resident of Putrigam, PS Rajpora, Pulwama, in the case RC-03/2022/ NIA/JMU,” NIA said in a statement.
The encounter adhered two days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jammu on April 24.
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A joint of police and government forces had claimed to have killed two suspected Pakistani militants “wearing suicide vests” during five-hour encounter near the Sunjwan military station in the Jammu region.
The case was initially registered in Police station Bahu Fort, Jammu as FIR (No. 115/2022) dated 22 April 2022 and re-registered by NIA on 26 April 2022, the statement said.
“Investigation has revealed that accused Abid Ahmad Mir is an Over Ground Worker of JeM and a close associate of arrested accused Bilal Ahmed Wagay, He was also in touch with Pakistan based handlers of JeM. He knowingly and voluntarily had extended support to the other co-accused persons in the commission of the instant crime. The further investigation in the case continues, the NIA added.
(GNS)
