SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) attached the houses of an accused on Wednesday, in a double murder case in J&K’s Srinagar. Officials said that the NIA team attached the two-storeyed residential house of an accused in Zaldagar area of Srinagar city. The NIA action comes on back of investigation into the murder of […]
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NIA team arrives at Gangangir militant attack site in Ganderbal
GANDERBAL — A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team arrived on Monday noon at a construction site in Ganderbal district’s Gagangir where militants gunned down a doctor and six labourers. The NIA team is being led by a Superintendent of Police rank officer from the agency’s regional branch in the Union Territory, said sources. A doctor […]
NIA team to visit militant attack site in Ganderbal
SRINAGAR — A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team led by a senior officer is headed to the militant attack site in Gagangir in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district where a doctor and six construction workers were killed when militants opened fire at a construction site on Sunday. Sources said a Superintendent of Police rank officer […]
Reasi bus attack: NIA searches underway in multiple places of Rajouri, Reasi
JAMMU — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday launched searches at multiple places in Rajouri and Reasi districts as part of its investigation into the deadly militant attack in June on a bus carrying pilgrims who were returning from Shiv Khori temple, officials said. NIA is conducting searches at seven locations in Jammu and Kashmir, […]
Delhi court grants interim bail to MP Engineer Rashid in militant funding case
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Tuesday granted interim bail till October 2 to Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid in a militant funding case. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh granted the […]
Engineer Rashid, as MP may misuse his position to influence witnesses, obstruct justice: NIA to Court
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday opposed Rashid Engineer’s bail plea in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case and stated that if granted bail, Rashid Engineer, as a Member of Parliament, may misuse his position to influence witnesses and obstruct justice. The agency said a confidential report indicating that Rashid […]
NIA charge sheets four persons including Pak-based militant in Srinagar civilian killings
SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday chargesheeted four persons, including a Pak-based militant, for the killing of two non-local civilians by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF), in Kashmir in February this year. The NIA said that the accused, Adil Manzoor Langoo, Ahran Rasool Dar @ Tota, Dawood, and […]
Interrogation of Reasi militant attack accused points towards Pak-based LeT handlers: NIA
NEW DELHI — The NIA’s interrogation of an arrested accused in the attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi last month has pointed towards the role of Pakistan-based handlers of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials said on Tuesday. Nine people were killed and 41 injured on June 9 when militants opened […]
NIA to probe 2023 Poonch militant attack case
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency will probe last year’s militant attack on an Army convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch that left five personnel dead, officials said on Tuesday. The process to take over the investigation into the matter has started and a case will be registered soon, they said. The probe will […]
NIA arrests key accused in J&K narco-militancy nexus case
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a key accused, who had been absconding since June 2020, in a narco-militancy nexus case of Jammu and Kashmir linked with Pakistan-based militant outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen. Syed Saleem Jahangir Andrabi alias Saleem Andrabi, a resident of Kupwara district, was carrying a reward […]