{"id":29170,"date":"2020-07-02T21:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29170"},"modified":"2020-07-02T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:43:26","slug":"pulwama-attack-nia-arrests-one-more-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29170","title":{"rendered":"Pulwama attack: NIA arrests one more accused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11610737_Pulwama-terror-attack--NIA-arrests-one-more-accused.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>:\u00a0The NIA arrested one more accused on Thursday in connection with last year&#8217;s Pulwama attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammad Iqbal Rather (25), a resident of Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam, had allegedly facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq &#8212; a member of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and a key conspirator in the case &#8212; after he infiltrated into the Indian territory in the Jammu region in April, 2018, a spokesperson of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farooq, along with others, had assembled the improvised explosive device (IED) used in the Pulwama attack, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather was in judicial custody since September, 2018 in another JeM-related case being probed by the premier investigation agency, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was produced by the jail authorities before a Special NIA Court in Jammu on Thursday and was sent to a seven-day custody of the agency for interrogation, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi:\u00a0The NIA arrested one more accused on Thursday in connection with last year&#8217;s Pulwama attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, an official said. Mohammad Iqbal Rather (25), a resident of Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Budgam, had allegedly facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq &#8212; a member of the Pakistan-based terror outfit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}