NEW DELHI – The
Jaish-e-Mohammad over ground worker (OGW) who provided the vehicle for the
February 14 Pulwama suicide bombing and was killed along with his recruiter in
a gunfight with security forces on Tuesday in Anantnag district of South
Kashmir had been radicalized in a religious seminary.
The two terrorists
killed in an encounter in Bijbehara, Anantnag on Tuesday were identified as
Sajad Maqbool Bhat, one of the members of the Pulwama suicide bombing squad and
his recruiter Tauseef Bhat, categorized as a serious threat in police records.
Radicalised at an
Islamic seminary where he studied religion for three years, a resident of
Bhagpora Marhama Bijbehara, Anantnag, on February 4 had bought the Maruti
Suzuki Eeco van used for the terror attack that left 44 CRPF jawans died.
Documents accessed
exclusively by the TOI reveal that Sajad fled his home eight days after the
attack, just when the investigators had discovered his role as the logistics
man in the bombing. As an overground worker, Sajad had been conducting
reconnaissance of the area and providing information to Jaish regarding the
movement of security forces. He had been missing since February 22, as per a
police report registered as Sangam.
The Eeco van which the
suicide attacker Aadil Ahmad Dar rammed into the CRPF bus at Lethpora, had been
sold to Mohammed Jaleel Ahmed Haqqani, a resident of Heaven Colony in Anantnag
in 2011, and subsequently changed hands seven times before it reached Sajad.
However, it is not
clear how Sajad managed to raise funds to buy the vehicle since he himself was
merely a student. Sajad studied at madrassa Taleem ul Islam Marhama for three
years after his seventh standard. He was enrolled at Government Higher
Secondary School Marhama for 11th standard, when he fled home to join as an armed terrorist with Jaish-e-Mohammad. His picture where he was seen holding
weapons, appeared on social media soon after he absconded while the police had
launched a manhunt for nabbing members of the Pulwama suicide bombing module.
The other terrorist,
23-years-old Tauseef Bhat, killed in the gunfight at Bijbehara on Tuesday, was
a B.A third-year student of distance learning and had joined the Jaish during
Ramzan on June 12, last year. Like Sajad, tauseef was also from Bijbehara,
Anantnag district. A resident of Kodi Angan Marhama area,Tauseef used to run a
‘darasgah’ a religion organization in evening hours.
His picture as an
armed terrorist had also appeared on social media. Documents reveal that police
categorized him as ‘great threat’ for Anantnag town, National Highway and
adjacent areas. Police records described him as someone who had the capacity to
organize well-planned attacks on security forces and motivate youth
particularly stone-pelters of the district, especially of Anantnag and
Bijbehara towns to join militants rank.
.
“It is now clear that
Tauseef had recruited Sajad for Jaish. From here on, Tauseef as a recruiter of
Sajad, will be part of the NIA investigations into the Pulwama terror attack,”
a top official in Srinagar told TOI.
Source: The Times of
India (TOI) – 19 June 2019
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