NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Days after the NIA arrested an overground Jaish worker who drove the Pulwama suicide bomber to the attack site, a father-daughter duo has landed in the agency’s net for allegedly facilitating and sheltering terror conspirators involved in the February 14, 2019, strike that killed 40 CRPF personnel.
Tariq Ahmed Shah, 50, a resident of Hakripora village in Pulwama, and his daughter Insha Jan, 23, are accused of having harboured suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar, Pakistani terrorists Umer Farooq and Kamran (both killed in subsequent encounters with security forces in J&K), Jaish terrorist from Pulwama Sameer Ahmad Dar and another Pakistani terrorist Mohd Ismail, at their residence.
The NIA claimed that Tariq Shah, a tipper truck driver in south Kashmir, admitted that his Hakripora house was used to shelter the terrorists as they planned the attack on the CRPF convoy. It was at his house that the video of Dar, released by Jaish after