A special court on Friday sent Bahadur Ali alias ‘Saifullah’, a Pakistani national allegedly working for terror outfit lashkar-e-Taiba, to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till August 17 after the agency said it needed to decode the writings in a diary recovered from him.
According to court sources, Ali was produced before District Judge Amar Nath after expiry of his NIA remand and during an in-camera proceedings the NIA said the diary was needed to be decoded as it would help in unearthing plans made by 21-year-old Ali and his associates.
In a new twist to the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir, the NIA had on Wednesday cited Ali’s confessional video to claim that unrest in the Valley was being orchestrated by Pakistan-based leT, claiming that the terror outfit had played a major role in fueling the unrest, triggered by the encounter killing of a
militant leader.