The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday claimed that the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Bahadur Ali was trained by military experts in Pakistan to foment trouble in the valley during the month long unrest following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
NIA Inspector General Sanjeev Kumar Singh said that the Arms and ammunition training was given to LeT terrorist Bahadur Ali and clearly shows the involvement of military experts.
"Ali has confessed that he was assured of cover fire from Pakistani army during the infiltration bid," Singh added.
According to the investigators the Lashkar control centre was in constant touch with Ali through Japanese communication sets worth 3500 dollars, and they even arranged food for Ali when he was in Jammu and Kashmir adding that a man named Haider pushed Ali into India.
Singh said that the captured terrorist underwent all three training processes organised by LeT, was recruited by Jamaat-ud-Dawa and subsequently radicalised by LeT.
"Articles recovered from him show that he was provided references in codes which clearly indicates highly trained people provided training to him," NIA officer told the media.
The officer also claimed that Bahadur Ali, who was recently captured from North Kashmir, was regularly guided from "control rooms of terrorist groups in Pakistan occupied Kashmir with the help of Pakistani forces".
"At Manibal four heavily armed terrorists were spotted after Bahadur Ali's disclosure and killed in an encounter," Singh said and added that Bahadur Ali was in India for a month before his arrest.
The NIA has said that this is an ongoing investigation to gather details about the role of LeT in the current situation in Kashmir.
Following the encounter of Burhan Wani, a 22-year-old social media savvy Hizbul Mujahideen commander on July 8, Kashmir has witnessed a total lockdown in the valley for more than a month now.
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