The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet against Pakistani national leT terrorist Bahadur Ali for planning to carry out subversive activities in India, including Delhi, at the behest of the banned outfit. The chargesheet was filed before District Judge Amar Nath here as NIA had registered a case against Ali, who was arrested on July 24 last year from North Kashmir’s border village Yahama.
The chargesheet has also highlighted the gaps along the line of Control (loC) as Ali, along with two other terrorists, had been walking for seven days undetected before they reached to their destination.
The trio had entered India between the intervening night to June 12 and 13 last year and reached their destination only around June 20. The area is expected to be dotted by security personnel as part of counter-infiltration grid, official sources said.
According to the NIA chargesheet, investigation has established that Ali, who is a school dropout and originally a resident of Jia Bagga Village of Raiwind in lahore, Pakistan, was also provided a map sheet depicting parts of Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK).
He was provided with the grid references (GRs) that had been recovered from his possession. Ali plotted these GRs on the map sheet which was sent for examination to the Surveyor General of India at Dehradun which affirmed that the terrorist had plotted them correctly.
“This clearly establishes that Ali is well conversant with the use of the map sheet and that he has received training in the subject. A GPS device was recovered from the possession of Ali at the time of his arrest.
“The data retrieved from the GPS device contained coordinates of the Mandakuli ‘launching pad’ of leT. The pocket diary recovered from Ali, among other things, contains the name of several towns in J&K, like Rafiabad, Kunzar, Tangmarg, Budgam, Poonch, Jammu and Udhampur, besides Delhi. Given the fact that Ali is a trained cadre of leT, the inclusion of the names of these towns or cities in the diary indicates that he was tasked to carry out terror attacks at several places, including in Delhi,” the charge sheet said.