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Vehicle Owned By Ex-PDP MLA Aijaz Ahmad Mir Used In Terror Attack On Amarnath Yatris, Says NIA Report
Aijaz Ahmad Mir (@MirAijaz89/Twitter)
A former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, has come under the scrutiny of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) over the alleged use of a vehicle owned by him in the 2017 terrorist attack on Amarnath pilgrimage, which killed eight people, reports The Tribune.
The NIA has written to the J&K Police, asking for an integrity report on the legislator from South Kashmir’s Wachi as part of an ongoing investigation into a weapons snatching case involving a Special Police Officer (SPO) guarding Mir in September 2018.
The SPO had then gone on to join terrorist ranks with the stolen weapons.
“It has come to our notice that one of his (Mir’s) vehicles was used in the attack on pilgrims of the Amarnath yatra,” the letter says.
Previously, the police had blamed notorious terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba for the attack and had taken Mir’s driver into custody for ostensibly being linked with terrorists. At the time, they denied that the legislator had any role in the attack.
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