Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: Pakistani terrorist and Udhampur attack accused Mohammad Naved Yaqub will be produced before the Special NIA court here tomorrow morning for extension of his judicial remand by 10 to 15 days as the Agency was in the process of combining all investigating related documents to file challan in the court of law for which it still has sufficient time.
Official sources said the judicial remand of Yaqub, a Pakistani terrorist of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) hailing from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is expiring tomorrow and he will be produced before the NIA court for extension of the remand. The NIA will seek 15 days more judicial remand of Naved.
Presently, Naved is lodged in high security Central Jail of Kot Bhalwal. Naved has been extended extra security cover following threat to his life by the LeT outfit.
Sources said Naved will be taken to the NIA Court within the High Court complex in Janipura from Kot Bhalwal jail along with medical and other reports and the Investigating Agency will seek his remand.
The NIA has 90 days time to present challan against Naved as against 60 days of police.
The NIA has, meanwhile, announced a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh to anyone who helps the agency to arrest another militant Abu Okasha, a Pakistani wanted in Udhampur terror attack.
Posters appeared at different places in south Kashmir, where the militants, including Mohammad Naved, who was captured alive after the encounter, had stayed before leaving for Udhampur.
Two BSF personnel were killed and a dozen others were injured when Naved and another militant Momen attacked BSF convoy at Narsu, Samroli in Udhampur district. Momen was killed in retaliatory firing by the BSF.
Later the case was handed over to NIA and about a dozen persons were arrested by the agency on the disclosure of Naved.
The poster reads `WANTED BY NIA’ in case RC NO, 08/2015/NIA/DLI (Udhampur terrorist attack case). It further reads: Aged between 18 and 19 years, Abu Okasha is a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan?
The NIA announced reward of Rs 5 lakhs for any information leading to his arrest. Identity of the informed will be kept secret, the poster said.
Naved has identified Abu as mastermind of the attack on BSF.
Earlier, the NIA had released sketches of two Pakistani militants and declared cash reward of Rs 5 lakh each on both of them. They had infiltrated into Kashmir from Gulmarg sector of Kupwara district on the Line of Control (LoC) along with Naved and Momen.
The NIA was hunting several other accused in the case including tanker driver and conductor, who had transported Naved and Momen from Kulgam to Narsu, Samroli on August 4 before they carried out the attack on the BSF bus in wee hours of August 5 morning. Both of them, residents of South Kashmir, were absconding, sources said.
Another truck driver, Khurshid Ahmad alias Surya, who had brought Naved and another Pakistani militant to Bari Brahamana prior to the attack, has been arrested.
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