Pakistan infiltrator remanded to NIA custody

Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and the lone survivor of the cross-border infiltration, Bahadur Ali was remanded to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till August 11.

Ali was brought to the capital on a five-day transit remand from J&K on July 28 and produced at the special NIA court at Patiala House on Saturday. The NIA appealed that they wished to interrogate Ali to unearth a larger conspiracy, find out his hideouts and gain information on other alleged associates.

21-year-old Ali aka Saiffuddin, hails from a Pakistani village Zaibagh in the district of Lahore. Ali is believed to have crossed the international Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir sometime around mid-June.

He was captured by the Indian Army on July 25, during an anti-infiltration operation on the LoC in the Naugam sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir.

Ali was apprehended with grenades, a grenade launcher, an AK-47 assault rifle, six magazines with 30 rounds each, GPS and various other weapons which were recovered on his person.

Sources claim that Ali has admitted to having been trained at a LeT camp where he personally met the chief Hafeez Saeed twice.

The infiltrator caught on the LoC is the fifth Pakistani to be apprehended alive since the Udhampur terror attack in August last year. This is also the third time in the last three months when Pakistan's terror machinery has been exposed.