Probe Agency Files Chargesheet Against Six Lashkar-e-Mustafa Terrorists

The newly floated terror outfit Lashkar-e-Mustafa is an offshoot of the proscribed terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, an NIA spokesperson said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against six terrorists of Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LeM) outfit, a frontal organisation of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), who were planning attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. Those chargesheeted include self-styled chief commander of the LeM, Hidayat Ullah Malik, and a woman, Baseerat-ul-Ain, both residents of Shopian in south Kashmir, and Mustaq Alam and his brother Jawed Alam of Deobahuara-Chhapra in Bihar, an NIA spokesperson said. Others named in the chargesheet are Jan Mohd Teeli of Anantnag and Mudabir Manzoor of Shopian.Malik, who was arrested from Kunjwani area of Jammu on February 6, had formed LeM in August last year. On February 14, the Director General of Police Dilbag Singh had termed his arrest a major breakthrough and said he had forwarded a video of NSA Ajit Doval's Delhi office to his handler in Pakistan, which meant they were planning an attack there.