Udhampur attack: Kulgam police arrest LeT driver who transported Pak militant Naved

The Kulgam police on Tuesday arrested a truck owner who had allegedly transported Pakistani militant Mohammed Naved Yakub to Udhampur, where he had attacked a BSF bus on August 5, according to Zee Media.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier announced Rs 2 lakh reward on the driver. The NIA is probing the militant attack in which two BSF personnel were killed.

NIA had nabbed the truck driver in September. He is alleged to have helped Naved along with his accomplice Mohammed Noman alias Momin to travel to Udhampur. The driver Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', is said to be an LeT operative, and lives in Awantipura.

Khursheed had taken Naved and his accomplice Momin to Jammu on July 20 on a reconnaissance mission during which the timings of convoys of BSF and Army were marked, says Zee News.

After carrying out the attack on the BSF convoy alongwith Naved, Momin was killed in retaliatory fire while Naved was nabbed by two villagers whom he tried to kidnap.

However, the BSF has maintained that their convoy was not the intended target. It is also alleged that the captured driver said that he and his fellow militant wanted to target the ongoing Amarnath Yatra.