Chargesheet filed against 2 for 'helping' Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operatives
Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 29
The anti-terror federal probe agency NIA said on Saturday it has filed a supplementary charge sheet against two residents of Jammu & Kashmir who it claims were overground workers of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) who helped the militants plan terrorist incidents at different places in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India.
Officials in the agency said the charge sheet has been filed in a special Lucknow court under various sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act- UAPA and Indian Penal Code (IPC) against Nisar Ahmad Sheikh a resident of Bonastan in the Kishtwar district of J&K and Nishad Ahmad Butt, a resident of Hunjala village in Kishtwar district of J&K.
In the charge sheet, the officials said that the investigation by the NIA revealed that HM militant Osama Bin Javed (killed in an encounter later) was harboured and assisted by the accused Seikh and Butt.
“Seikh used to arrange safe transport and Butt had provided shelter and other logistic support for Osama Bin Javed and other terrorists of HM. Butt had also constructed a hideout in his own house in order to provide safe shelter to the terrorists of HM,” said a senior NIA official.
The case was originally registered at the Anti-Terrorist-Squad (ATS) of UP Police September 12, 2018, against Kamruj Zaman and others under sections of UAPA relating to a criminal conspiracy by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen cadres to carry out terror incidents at different places in UP and other parts of India.
Later the NIA took over the case and re-registered an FIR on September 24, 2018. NIA had earlier filed a charge sheet against arrested accused Kamruj Zaman and absconding accused Osama Bin Javed on March 11, 2019. But Javed was later killed in an encounter with security forces on September 28, 2019.
