J&K's State Investigation Agency files chargesheet against 3 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists
India Today
After a nearly six-month investigation, the State Investigation Agency in Jammu & Kashmir has filed a chargesheet against three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists — Asif Shabir Naik, his father Shabir Hussain Naik aka Khalid Shabir, and Safdar Hussain aka Ehsan.
The State Investigation Agency in Jammu & Kashmir has filed a chargesheet against three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists — Asif Shabir Naik, his father Shabir Hussain Naik aka Khalid Shabir, and Safdar Hussain aka Ehsan. While Asif Shabir Naik is from Kashtigarh in Doda, Shabir Hussain Naik, who is currently operating from Pakistan. Safdar Hussain of Marmat village in Doda, too, is based in Pakistan.
The investigating agency submitted the chargesheet against the three accused before a special court in Jammu.
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The investigation that started on November 7, 2021, assumes importance in the context of the government’s strategy to identify J&K residents hiding in Pakistan and coordinating terrorist and secessionist activities from across the border.
Asif Shabir Naik was intercepted at Srinagar airport while trying to escape back to Pakistan on the basis of intelligence inputs that he had been visiting Pakistan posing as a student. But he actually had been visiting terrorist and separatist training facilities, suggested the intelligence input.
While Asif Shabir Naik is in judicial custody, the other two —mastermind Shabir Hussain Naik and his associate Safdar Hussain who are hiding in Pakistan — have been booked under Section 299 of the Criminal Procedure Code as absconders.
The investigation revealed the story of GH Mohd Naik who escaped to Pakistan and climbed up the ranks within the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, led by Syed Sallauddin, and became the media advisor, looking after the propaganda cell of the terror outfit.