Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) leadership consisting of Masood Azhar, Rouf Asgar, and Ammar Alvi orchestrated the Pulwama attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel in February last year, said National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet filed on Tuesday. 

According to the chargesheet, the JeM leadership constantly provided directions and guidance to the Pakistani JeM infiltrators before and after the attack in Pulwama, reported PTI.

“The investigation has revealed that Pulwama attack was a result of a well-planned criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based leadership of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad. The JeM leaders have been sending their cadres to the terrorist training camps of Al-Qaida-Taliban-JeM and Haqqani-JeM in Afghanistan for receiving training in explosives and other terrorist tactics,” said the NIA.

The 13,800-page NIA chargesheet also stated that Mohammed Umar Farooq, nephew of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief, had received Rs 10 lakh in his bank accounts in Pakistan to execute the Pulwama Terror Attack. 

According to the NIA probe, Rs 10 lakh in Pakistani currency was credited into three accounts of Farooq, the main accused of the suicide attack case, in his Allied Bank and Mezaan Bank accounts.

NIA officials have said that the money was deposited by the top leadership of the JeM terror group between January and February 2019.

The investigating agency stated that the terrorist had spent around Rs 6 lakh on purchasing explosives and the Maruti Eeco car.

“Over Rs 2.80 lakh was used to procure around 200 kilograms of explosives like ammonium nitrate to create a massive car-laden IED attack on the CRPF convoy moving from Jammu to Srinagar on February 14, 2019,” stated the chargesheet.

The terrorist had spent another Rs 2.5 lakh on purchasing and modifying the car to be used in the attack.

The agency said that that some money was spent on miscellaneous expenses, like the purchase of containers for fabricating the Improvised Explosive Device. 

Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Adil Ahmad Dhar was driving the car packed with explosives when it collided with the CRPF convoy and killed 40 soldiers in February 2019.

The probe also said that damage to the tune of 32.90 lakh was caused to public property due to the attack.