The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted three accused, including a Pakistani handler, in a terror conspiracy case involving seizure of arms and ammunition in the Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The official handout said that the accused, identified as Abdul Aziz, Munawar Hussain and Nazir Hussain alias Nazir Ahmed alias Ali Khan alias Nazir alias Ali alias Naziru alias Shaheen, have been charged under relevant sections.
Nazir Hussain, currently active in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), is an operative of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Gazanavi Force (JKGF) terrorist organisation.
As per NIA investigations, he was involved in motivating vulnerable people of Kashmir to engage in acts of violence as part of the larger conspiracy hatched by various proscribed terrorist organisations and their associates to carry out terrorist acts and activities in the region.
Nazir would share inflammatory audio clips and video notes with local sympathizers of the terror outfits, inciting them to pursue ‘jihad’ and wage a war against India.
He also provided them with arms, ammunition and hand grenades, etc, to carry out the violent agenda of the terrorist organisations seeking to spread terror among the people.
The case was registered by NIA on the basis of police FIR of October 2024, when a policy party at Surankote, Poonch, had apprehended Abdul Aziz and seized two grenades from his bag. His interrogation had led to the arrest of Munawar Hussain, from whom one pistol with one magazine and nine rounds was seized.
Both the accused were in contact with handler Nazir alias Ali, subsequent investigations had exposed a conspiracy from across the border to destabilize Jammu and Kashmir through acts of violence and terror aimed at disrupting the region’s communal harmony and peace, read the handout.
