JAMMU: On 29 November 2016, a group of heavily armed terrorists, disguised in police uniform, had attacked an Army unit located three kilometers from the Corps Headquarters at Nagrota where seven Army personnel, including two officers, were killed.
With four months passed, the premiere investigating agency, NIA, which had registered FIR’S afresh, is still struggling to piece together the entire plot behind the audacious strike.
Even after picking up some of the key suspects, the NIA team had to release them in the absence of any corroborative evidence against them.
The terror attack was planned in sync with another terror strike along the International Border.
But alert BSF jawans had managed to neutralise a heavily armed group of infiltrators while the second group had managed to breach different layers of security to mount an audacious strike on the army camp in Nagrota
According to official sources, in the last four months, NIA authorities have also failed to establish the identity of infiltrators and trace role of foreign handlers, if any, behind the militant strike. The question how these infiltrators safely reached Nagrota remains a mystery as neither the vehicle which they may have used or the human conduit has not been identified or picked up. Secondly, NIA authorities were still searching for local sympathsiers who could have organised police uniforms and other logistics for fidayeen group ahead of carrying out the strike.
Initially, even the army authorities were reluctant on handing over the probe to NIA authorities and had carried out parallel investigations to pin point the loop holes in the security bandobast of the strategic military assets.