Court discharges Kashmiri student in terror case

MOHALI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court docket in Mohali discharged a Kashmiri student arrested in reference to the Jalandhar terror assault. Special NIA pass judgement on Nirbhow Singh Gill issued Danish Rehman Sofi’s unencumber order on Monday.

Danish was once arrested on October 19, 2018, a week after Punjab Police and special operations crew of Jammu and Kashmir Police busted an apprehension module in Jalandhar with the arrest of 4 Kashmiri scholars allegedly connected to the Kashmiri terror outfit, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH).


Three Kashmiri scholars — Zahid Gulzar, Mohammed Idris Shah alias Nadeem, and Yusuf Rafiq Bhatt — have been arrested on October 10, 2018 from the hostel of CT Institute of Engineering Management and Technology at Shahpur at the outskirts of Jalandhar. Two weapons, together with an assault rifle, and explosives have been recovered from them. Fourth Kashmiri student, Sohail Ahmed Bhatt, was once arrested on October 11, 2018. Sohail, who was once additionally a student in Jalandhar, was once picked up for aiding the 3 arrested scholars in selecting up the weapon consignment from Amritsar on October 7, 2018.

Danish, from Awantipura in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was once a third yr B Tech student of Universal Group of Institutions, Lalru, Mohali, and used to stay in Dera Bassi. He was once the fifth Kashmiri student to be arrested in the case as he was once believed to be a detailed aide of Sohail Ahmed Bhatt. He was once arrested from Jammu and Kashmir Sources in NIA mentioned that Danish and the opposite four accused have been schoolmates and had accomplished their education in Senior High School, Noorpura, Pulwama.


The NIA had earlier filed chargesheet in opposition to the accused and had mentioned it did not in finding any evidence of Danish’s involvement in the case. The chargesheet mentioned that the NIA court docket may drop the charges in opposition to Danish filed by way of the police as there was once no evidence in opposition to him.


The police had claimed Danish shared good family members with the AGH head, Zakir Rashid Bhat, better known as Zakir Musa, and that he had wisdom in regards to the activities of the four arrested scholars and the supply of weapons.


Danish has been discharged of the entire sections he was once arrested — 121 (waging or making an attempt to salary battle in opposition to the rustic and 120-B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant sections of the Arms Act and the Explosives Act, according to the pass judgement on’s order.


The NIA has refused to divulge details about the case in opposition to the remaining four scholars arrested in the case prior to Danish.
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