Srinagar: The J&K police have detained at least six people whose names were revealed by arrested Pakistani militant Mohammad Naved, alias Usman, who was captured by villagers and security forces soon after he and his associate attacked a BSF vehicle at Udhampur on the national highway. he had attacked a Border Security Force bus on August 5. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had announced Rs 2 lakh reward on him.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the August 5 terror strike on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district in which two Border Security Force troopers were killed as well as one of the terrorists, had announced a reward of Rs. 2 lakh for Sabzar’s arrest.
The NIA sources had further said Khursheed had taken Naved and his accomplice Mohammed Noman alias Momin to Jammu on July 20 on a reconnaissance mission during which the timings of convoys of BSF and Army were marked.
In his early 20s, Naved along with his accomplice Mohammed Noman alias Momin had carried out a terror strike on a BSF convoy on August five in Udhampur killing two personnel of the border guarding force. Momin was killed in retaliatory fire while Naved was foxed and nabbed by two villagers whom he wanted to kidnap.
However, the BSF has maintained that their convoy was not the intended target. News reports quoted the captured Pakistani as saying that he and his fellow militant wanted to target the ongoing Amarnath Yatra.
Bureau Report
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