In Jammu, the NIA has filed a supplementary chargesheet in the LeM terror plot case.

In a case involving a plan to carry out terror acts in Jammu, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against four alleged Lashkar-e-Mustafa operators, an official said on Sunday. 

The chargesheet was submitted at the NIA special court in Jammu on Saturday against Mohd Arman Ali alias 'Arman Mansuri' and Mohd Ehsanullah alias 'Guddu Ansari', both of Bihar, and Imran Ahmad Hajam and Irfan Ahmad Dar of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.

According to the NIA, the complaint against the alleged terrorists was filed under the Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act, the Explosive Substances Act, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. 

According to the spokesperson, the case concerns the hatching of a plot by Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LeM) operatives at the behest of the proscribed Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed to carry out terrorist activities in the Jammu area with the intent of endangering India's sovereignty, integrity, and security.

On February 6, last year, a case was filed at the Gangyal police station in Jammu, and on March 2, last year, the NIA took over the investigation after re-filing the case.

On August 4 of last year, the agency filed a chargesheet in the case against six accused defendants. 

"Investigation revealed that the four accused persons charged yesterday (Saturday) conspired, procured, and transported weapons for the LeM from Bihar to Jammu and Kashmir via Punjab and Haryana in order to carry out terror activities in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the Jammu region," according to the spokesperson.

On February 6, police apprehended the LeM's self-styled chief commander, Hidayatullah Malik, a Shopian native in south Kashmir, in a major anti-terrorism operation from the Kunjwani region of Jammu.

Following his interrogation, five more suspects were apprehended, including a Bihar resident, Javaid Alam Ansari, who was apprehended from his home in Chapra's Deobahuara village and brought to Jammu on transit remand on February 20 last year. 

Malik set up a network to get weapons from Bihar, and sourced seven pistols from there, according to Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh, who said Malik had set up a network to get weapons from Bihar and had them distributed among terrorists in the Valley on February 14, last year.

The police chief revealed that Malik had forwarded a video of NSA Ajit Doval’s Delhi office to his handler in Pakistan which means they were planning an attack there as well