NIA files chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Bahadur Ali - Know more about the LeT cadre

New Delhi: National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Friday filed its chargesheet at the Special Court at Patiala House against captured Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Bahadur Ali.

The NIA has maintained that Ali was a Pakistan-based LeT cadre and was sent to carry out terror attacks in India.

The NIA claims that Bahadur Ali was trained by military experts in Pakistan.

The captured terrorist underwent three mandated training processes organised by LeT. He was recruited in Jamaat-ud-Dawa by a close aide of the terror outfit`s chief Hafiz Saeed in 2008-2009 at the age of 13-14 years and subsequently radicalised by LeT.

The LeT cadre was arrested by the Indian authorities in J&K on July 25, 2016.

Ali, resident of Zia-Bagha village in Lahore district of Pakistan, also informed interrogators that his group of terrorists was launched after being staged forward at their Dett (detachment) near the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.

Ali told his interrogators that he was informed by his handlers from a control room code-named 'Alpha-3', believed to located at a high altitude somewhere in PoK, about the unrest in the Valley following the killing of Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant on July 8.

His handlers from the control room asked him to throw grenades at the security forces and also informed him that other cadres of the terror group had managed to sneak into the Valley, mingled with protesters and were fuelling tension in the Valley.

He informed that this Dett is headed by a senior LeT member who provides arms and ammunition as well as other accessories like GPS, night vision devices, compass, grenade launchers, rubber maps, matrix sheets, food packets, dry ration, and medicines, among other things.

Ali was launched from Mandakuli Dett which was dealt by an LeT commander Abu Haider.