STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: National Investigation Agency (NIA) is all set to probe the audacious terror strike on an Army camp in Nagrota based 16 Corps Headquarters on November 29, 2016.
A team of NIA officers would be reaching Jammu shortly to visit the crime scene and commence the investigation. The NIA will also place the FIR before the NIA Special Court at Jammu.
The objective behind handing over the probe to NIA is to expose the Pak hand behind the strike. Two senior army officers along with five jawans had sacrificed their lives during the day-long operation to neutralise the group of three heavily armed terrorists.
Bodies of three terrorists, dressed in police uniform, were also recovered from the encounter site.
Initially, the state police had handed over the probe to CID wing while Indian army is separately carrying out its in-house inquiry to unravel the mystery behind the route adopted by the terrorists before storming the army camp.
Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag had earlier visited the encounter site to review the security situation prevailing in the region.
According to a press statement, “On 7th December, 2016, in compliance with the instructions issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, vide Order No.11011/37/2016-IS. IV, dated 6th December, 2016, the National Investigation Agency Police Station at New Delhi, has re-registered the case under FIR 221/2016 registered at Nagrota Police Station, under police district Jammu, as NIA case No. RC-16/2016/NIA/DLI, for offences under sections 120B, 121, 307 of the Ranbir Penal Code and sections 7, 27 of the Arms Act, 1958”.
“The case at the Nagrota Police Station was registered on the basis of information received at the Police Station Nagrota that on 29th November 2016, some heavily armed unknown terrorists, on the directions of their foreign handlers, had entered into the Army Camp at Nagrota, near the Baleeni Bridge and started indiscriminate firing upon the army personnel with the intention to kill them. The actions of the terrorists constitute scheduled offences under sections 16, 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967”, the NIA statement said.
