The woman who got away

Sajad Ahammed Reshi of Chakoo Shopian in South Kashmir and Fiyas Ahammed of Pulwama district told the NIA and later the court that the five Kerala youths were taken from Srinagar to the camp by Parveen,wife of a butcher in Rampura,Sopore.

They said she handed them over to Abdulla,a militant and commander of Al-Badr from Pakistan. Reshi and Ahammed said they were told by a Kerala trainee that 180 men were waiting in the state for training.

When the two joined the camp,there were Pak men. Kerala men joined later. Reshi and Ahammed fled the camp and surrendered before the police. They were made prosecution witnesses. The NIA,however,did not show similar leniency to Abdul Jabbar,who also escaped from the camp.