Court sends suspected LeT operative to JC till Sep 15

A special court on Wednesday sent Bahadur Ali alias ‘Saifullah’, a Pakistani national allegedly working for terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, to judicial custody till September 15, after the NIA said it did not require his further custodial interrogation.

According to court sources, Ali was produced before District Judge Amar Nath on expiry of his NIA remand, and during in-camera proceedings, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved an application seeking one month JC for the accused. In a new twist to the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir, NIA had cited Ali’s confessional video to claim that the ongoing unrest in the Valley was being orchestrated by Pakistan-based LeT which had played a major role in fuelling the unrest. 

The agency has claimed that since summer this year, the banned outfit, with the “help of Pakistani forces deployed on the border”, pushed heavily armed terrorists into India.