Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached properties of an alleged overground worker of proscribed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in south Kashmir’s Pulwama for his involvement in Fidayeen attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, the officials said.
Five paramilitary personnel were killed and three seriously injured in the attack on CRPF camp in Pulwama’s Lethpora in December 2017. Three terrorists had attacked the camp and were killed in retaliatory action by security forces. The immovable properties attached by NIA include several pieces of land and residential premises belonging to Fayaz Ahmed Magray in Lethpora.
“These properties deemed to be proceeds of terrorism belonged to accused Fayaz Ahmed Magray,” it said. He was arrested and charged under various sections of RPC and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in August 2019. The attachment of properties followed orders of the NIA Special Court at Jammu. The NIA investigations had found Fayaz to be an active OGW of the JeM in south Kashmir.
“He was found to have participated in the meetings with the terrorists who had planned and executed the deadly attack on the CRPF centre,” said the NIA.
Magray alongside two more Jaish terrorists Noor Mohammad Tantray and Mudasir Ahmad Khan had also conducted a recee of the target camp, said the NIA. “Besides arranging weapons for Mudasir and subsequently helping him escape Lethpora,” it added.
Tantray was killed in an encounter with security forces before the CRPF camp attack while Mudasir was killed in another encounter later. The seizure of the property comes close on the heels after a special NIA court in Jammu and Kashmir acquitted three men from Baramulla’s Sopore town in a terror case.
The court said the prosecution failed to prove the alleged recovery of arms and their links to the banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Principal District and Sessions Judge Kupwara Manjeet Singh Manhas acquitted Waseem Irshad Gabroo of Takiyabal, Mehraj-ud-Din Wani of the Badshah Masjid area, and Mehraj-ud-Din Gojri of Batpora, all residents of Sopore in north Kashmir, giving them the “benefit of doubt.”
The court said the prosecution case was marked by inconsistencies and lacked credible evidence. The trio was arrested way back in September 2020 during checking at Drugmulla area of frontier Kupwara district.
