NIA arrests father-daughter duo in connection with Pulwama terror attack

The National Investigation agency has made two arrests in connection with Pulwama attack. The attack on the CRPF convoy, moving from Jammu towards Srinagar on February 14 last year in Pulwama, with an IED-laden vehicle by a Jaish suicide bomber had claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made two more arrests in connection with the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 jawans from the Central Reserve Police Force were killed. The NIA, which is investigating the case, on Tuesday arrested a Pulwama resident and his daughter. The two are suspected of “harbouring” Adil Ahmad Dar, who carried out the Pulwama suicide bombing, and Shakir Magrey, who was arrested last week. The two are also accused of providing shelter to senior Jaish-e-Mohammad commanders just before the February 14, 2019 Pulwama attack.

The arrests today come days after the NIA arrested 22-year-old Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner and resident of Hajibal, Kakapora in Pulwama, for allegedly providing shelter and other logistical assistance to suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar.

According to the agency, Magrey was introduced to Adil Ahmad Dar in mid-2018 by a Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Umar Farooq who recruited him as a full-time over-ground worker of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, which claimed responsibility for the 2019 Pulwama terror attack.

The attack on the CRPF convoy, moving from Jammu towards Srinagar on February 14 last year in Pulwama, with an IED-laden vehicle by Jaish terrorist Dar had claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel and grievously injured many others.

The terror attack promted India to launch a rare airstrike in Pakistani terroritory. Fighter jets of the Indian Air Force bombed a Jaish facility in Balakot, located in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.