Ministry of home affairs transfers Pulwama case to NIA, first investigation report to be filed today

The February 14 Pulwama attack in which 45 CRPF personnel were killed on Lethpora road , the  primary investigations revealed huge amount of RDX packed in a jerrycan,the shards of jerrycan were recovered  from the spot.

The Home Ministry has transferred the deadly  Pulwama suicide case to the NIA on Tuesday as according to the sources..

An official order in this regard was received by the NIA at its headquarters on Tuesday evening. Sources said the agency would file an FIR in the matter on Wednesday.

A team of more than 10 NIA officers under an inspector general-rank officer had been camping in Kashmir since Friday. It was providing assistance to Jammu and Kashmir Police, which was probing the case.

Sources said the agency, along with the police, has been questioning suspects from Pulwama and Awantipora. On Tuesday, too, the sources said, the NIA team questioned some people from the two areas on suspicion of having provided logistical support to the attacker.

“These are the two areas in which Jaish-e-Mohammed has had maximum activity in the past few years. It is suspected that the car used for the attack was packed with explosives not far from the attack site. And it could not have happened without local help,” an officer said.

Identified as Adil Ahmed Dar by Jaish, which has claimed responsibility for the attack, the attacker had allegedly driven a Maruti Eeco car alongside the CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Lethpora and detonated it near the fifth bus in the convoy, killing 40 personnel.