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NIA files chargesheet against Masood Azhar, 19 others in 2019 Pulwama terror attack case

The investigating agency solved the "blind case" after joining together the electronic evidence, besides statements of terrorists and their sympathisers arrested in different cases from time to time, sources said.

US moves draft to blacklist Masood Azhar, China says it complicates issueJeM chief Masood Azhar. (File)
2 min readJammuAug 25, 2020 09:05 PM IST First published on: Aug 25, 2020 at 04:41 PM IST

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet Tuesday against Pakistan-based chief of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, Moulana Masood Azhar, and 19 others for planning and carrying out a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy killing 40 para military personnel in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district in 2019.

The investigating agency solved the “blind case” after joining together the electronic evidence, besides statements of terrorists and their sympathisers arrested in different cases from time to time, sources said.

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The accused named in the over 13,000 page chargesheet include people arrested from Pulwama for providing logistics, including shelter and shooting the last video of the suicide bomber Adil Dar, who rammed the nearly 200 kgs explosive laden vehicle into the CRPF convoy on February 14 last year at Lethpora Pulwama.

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