The NIA has sent letters Rogatory to Pakistan seeking details of four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists who had carried out the attack on the Pathankot airbase in Jnauary this year.
The move comes ahead of the visit of Pakistani Special Investigating Team (SIT) that is likely to take place in the last week of this month. letters Rogatory is a legal document sent through the special court asking details about the phone numbers dialled by the four terrorists ahead of carrying out the strike at the airbase on the intervening night of January 1 and 2.
The numbers are suspected to be in the names of persons connected with Jaish terror group, including Mullah Dadullah and Kashif Jaan. The numbers shared belong to the Pakistani telecom operators like Mobilink, Warid and Telenor.
The NIA has also sought details and picture of sons of Khayam Baber, whose son was part of the suicide squad that carried out the attack.
Kashif Jaan, one of the key handlers of the attackers, had accompanied the terrorists till the border and returned to supervise the operations, the sources said.
The bodies of four terrorists have been preserved. Out of the four, two of them have been identified as Nasir and Salim. Nasir was the one who had called his mother, brother Babar and an uncle, in Bahawalpur from the phone snatched from Rajesh Verma, jeweller friend of Superintendent of Police of Punjab Salwinder Singh.
The NIA has also given details, including the batch number of food packets, used by the terrorists after infiltrating into India on December 30.