40 CRPF personnel were killed in the attack. (File photo)
The National Investigation Agency Tuesday arrested a father-daughter duo from Hakirpora village in Pulwama for allegedly providing shelter to Adil Ahmed Dar, a Jaish-e-Mohammed operative and suicide bomber who was behind the February 2019 attack on a CRPF bus on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, killing 40 personnel.
The central agency arrested Tariq Ahmed Shah, 50, and his daughter Insha Jan, 23, from their home in Hakirpora Tuesday morning. They were produced before a NIA Court in Jammu, which remanded them to 10-day police custody.
According to NIA, the video eulogising Dar as a suicide bomber was shot in Shah's house and later released by JeM. Sources said the duo had been sheltering JeM operatives in their house since 2018 and were in contact with Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Umar Farooq, a key Pulwama conspirator, who was later killed in an encounter.
This is the second arrest in the case by NIA. Last week, the agency had arrested Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner at Hajibal in Pulwama, for allegedly helping Dar and other Pulwama conspirators in conducting reconnaissance for the…
