NIA attaches property of LeT operatives in Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on December 7 attached the properties of two “key Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives” for their involvement in the 2015 terror attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir.

An NIA spokesperson said the two accused, identified as Fayaz Ahmed Itoo alias Fayaz Khar, and Khursheed Ahmed Bhat alias Khursheed Alam Bhat alias Surya, were arrested after the attack and are members of the banned Pakistan-backed terror organisation, according to the NIA’s investigation.

The four immovable properties attached include a single storey residential house belonging to Itoo in Khudwani village, Qaimoh, Kulgam district, and a double storey residential house along with two plots of land belonging to Bhat in Chursoo and Sail village, Awantipora, Pulwama district. The properties were attached under Section 33(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) or UAPA Act, 1967, in pursuance of recent orders of the NIA’s special court in Jammu.