NIA files charge sheet against 3 terror operatives in Devender Singh case

Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 22

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday said it has filed a charge sheet against three accused Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operatives Shaheen Ahmad Lone, Tafazul Hussain Parimoo and Waheed-ur-Rahman Para under various sections of the IPC, UAPA and Explosive Substances Act in a Jammu special court in connection with suspended J&K Police officer Devender Singh case.

In the charge sheet, the officials in the NIA said the investigation revealed that accused Lone and Parimoo were involved in gun running from across the LoC for the militants of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and were also channelising funds to the militants for sustaining terrorist activities in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) at the behest of handlers located in Pakistan. 

“It was also revealed that accused Para was part of the conspiracy for arranging and transferring of terror funds to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants for procurement of hardware for terrorists and was also a crucial player in sustaining political-separatist-terrorist nexus in J&K,” the NIA said in the charge sheet.

This case was first registered after apprehension of two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists Syed Naveed Mushtaq and Rafi Ahmad Rather along with one serving DSP of J&K Police Devender Singh and advocate Irfan Shafi Mir, near Al-Stop Naka, Qazigund while they were travelling from Srinagar to Jammu in the i20 car owned and driven by accused advocate Mir. 

The NIA later took over the investigation in the case and a charge sheet was earlier filed against eight accused in this case.