NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its chargesheet on April 22 on Monday Terrorist attack in Pahalgam Case naming seven defendants, including a Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its offshoot, The resistance front (TRF).Also read | Secret services monitor the expansion of the terrorist infrastructure in POKThe anti-terrorism agency submitted the charge sheet to the special NIA court in Jammu. The 1,597-page chargesheet also names Pakistani senior officer Sajid Jatt and three Pakistani terrorists who were killed by security forces in Operation Mahadev in Dachigam in Srinagar in July. They have been identified as Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran and Hamza Afghani.Additionally, the indictment charges the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF) as legal entities for their role in planning, facilitating and executing the Pahalgam attack.It comes nearly seven months after the agency arrested two men for harboring the terrorists who carried out the deadly attack.The duo – Parvaiz Ahmad Jothar and Bashir Ahmad Jothar – had reportedly revealed the identities of the three armed terrorists and confirmed that the attackers were Pakistani nationals linked to the banned LeT.According to NIA investigations, Parvaiz and Bashir had knowingly harbored the three terrorists before the attack.
Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor
On April 22, heavily armed terrorists shot dead 26 civilians – all men – including a local resident and a tourist from Nepal, in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley.Also read | lahore-bound-for-jalandhar-watch/articleshow/125980660.cms" styleobj="[object Object]" class="strong" commonstate="[object Object]" frmappuse="1">Army displays Turkish drone used by Pak during Op Sindoor; would meet JalandharAfter announcing a series of diplomatic measures, India responded with Operation Sindoor and carried out airstrikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7. The attacks sparked fierce cross-border clashes that ended after Islamabad sought a ceasefire on May 10.
