New Delhi, Feb 20:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case and is launching a fresh probe into the terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in which 40 troopers were killed on February 14. The NIA has already taken samples of the explosives and evidence from the area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. “We have re-registered the Pulwama terror attack case,” said an NIA spokesperson on The move comes five days after the worst-ever terror attack on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy since militancy erupted in 1989 in the state. The first case in the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) claimed attack was registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Police on the day of attack. A day after the terror attack on the CRPF convoy, the
NIA Re-Registers
counter-terror probe agency officials along with explosive and forensic experts had collected material evidences required for the probe. A team of senior NIA officers has been camping in Srinagar since the suicide attack on the Jammu-Srinagar highway when an explosive-packed SUV rammed a bus carrying the CRPF troopers.
