NIA summons Cong leader GM Saroori

Tribune News Service

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Jammu, February 10

The NIA has asked senior Congress leader Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, a close aide of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, to share information about Hizbul Mujahideen militant Jahangir Saroori.

Summons signed by a DSP-rank officer were sent to GM Saroori at his residence in Gandhi Nagar a few days back and he was asked him to visit the NIA office.

Sources close to the family told The Tribune that Saroori had been asked to share any kind of information about the Hizb militant, who is active in his home district of Kishtwar for the last 28 years. “There is no mention of any link of the Congress leader with the militant in the summons but he has been asked to provide whatever information he has about the Hizb militant,” said a source.

Jahangir hails from Bugrana village of the Saroor area in Kishtwar district and his original name is Mohammad Amin Bhat. He is the longest-surviving militant of the Chenab valley as he had joined the Hizb outfit in 1992.

“Saroori sahib is in New Delhi and will be returning to Jammu in a day or two. Once he reaches here, he will visit the NIA office and clear the confusion once and for all,” Sharik Saroori, GM Saroori’s son, told The Tribune.