23-yr-old woman played crucial role in Pulwama attack: NIA charge-sheet

Around six months after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a father-daughter duo for facilitating a terror strike that killed 40 CRPF personnel in south Kashmir’s Pulwama, the agency, in a charge-sheet, has claimed that the 23-year-old woman had played a crucial role in the attack, NDTV reported.

According to the report, the woman, named Insha Jan, was in constant touch with Mohd Umar Farooq — the main conspirator — over the phone and social media and used to pass on information about the movement of CRPF personnel. Farooq and his two associates had been moving in and around Pulwama with the help of Insha’s father Tariq Pir, the charge-sheet revealed.

In early March, the NIA arrested Tariq and Insha Jan after an investigation led to their house at Hakripora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, where a video was filmed by Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar, who rammed an explosive-ridden car into the CRPF convoy. The video was released from Pakistan after the attack.

The preliminary probe had revealed that Tariq had facilitated the terrorists by sheltering them at his house, where they planned the heinous attack and also recorded a video of the suicide bomber. Insha had provided the terrorists with food and other logistics during their stay at the house on more than 15 occasions, the probe had revealed.