Srinagar, Jul 2 (UNI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested one more accused in connection with Pulwama terror attack in February 2019 that left 40 CRPF jawans dead.
Officials said that in the continuing investigation of the Pulwama attack case in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed in an IED blast on February 14, 2019, the NIA arrested one more accused, identified as Mohammad Iqbal Rather, a resident of Futlipura, Charar-e-Shareef in Budgam.
They said Rather had allegedly facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant and a key conspirator in this case, after he infiltrated into the Indian territory in Jammu region in April, 2018, though the national highway to south Kashmir. “Farooq, along with others, had assembled the IED used in the attack,” they said.