“Recognizing the fearless act of two civilians in nabbing the Pakistani terrorist on August 5 from the forest of village Chirdi in Udhampur district, the Jammu and Kashmir Police issued appointment orders, besides recommending them for prestigious Shaurya Chakra award”, an official spokesman said here.
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Naved, who had been one of the two terrorists involved in attack on a BSF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district earlier this month, was apprehended by two villagers whom he had made hostage on gunpoint.
“Mere kol jitna bhi tha, mein dus ditta”. I really do not have anything more to say, he also told the police in Jammu and Kashmir.
The language spoken by him is generally used in Faisalabad and Sialkot areas of Pakistan, his interrogators said.
Meanwhile, a truck driver, who ferried him along with his accomplice Mohammed Noman alias Momin to Udhampur, and a businessman who is alleged to have paid Rs.
A sustained questioning of Naved was required as he was changing statements frequently and had given four different accounts of the route he and his accomplices took to infiltrate India.
Sources said that the NIA produced Naved before the court in the morning and requested for his remand to enable his custodial interrogation to find out his other links and also the people associated with terror network in the state.
Reports say that he is going to be shifted to Delhi for interrogation. While the first module teaches LeT cadre physical fitness, mountaineering and use of small arms, in the second they are trained in using assault rifles and manufacture of small explosives.
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Naved Yakub, a militant from Pakistan who was caught alive in last week’s Udhampur attack, has been sent to 14-days’ police custody. His accomplice, identified by him as Noman alias Momin, was killed in retaliatory firing by BSF during the terror attack.
