| Jammu |
Updated: March 8, 2020 1:41:14 am
40 CRPF personnel were killed in the attack. (File photo)
A day after the National Investigation Agency arrested two more people in connection with the Pulwama attack, special Judge for NIA Court, Subash Gupta, on Saturday allowed the agency seven days custodial interrogation of the two accused.
Both the accused, Waiz-ul-Islam and Mohammad Abbas Rather were earlier produced in the court by NIA seeking their police remand for a week. They were arrested by NIA in the Valley on Friday taking the total number of arrested in the matter to five. The NIA has accused the two of providing shelter to planners and executers of the attack last year that killed 40 CRPF personnel.
Accepting the request of NIA, special judge observed that keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, gravity and heinousness of the crime as involved in the present matter, submissions made by the NIA and the stage of investigation in the case, the court is of the considered view that custodial interrogation of the accused is imperative to facilitate the ongoing investigation and to take it to its logical conclusion.
During preliminary questioning, Waiz-ul-Islam had revealed that he had used his Amazon online…
