Even as the Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed to have cracked the incidents of blasts that took place on January 21 in the winter capital here by arresting the alleged kingpin, the National Investigation Agency or NIA is likely to question the prime accused soon.
Sources said while the JK Police have already got around ten-day remand for the accused, Arif who hails from Reasi, the NIA would separately question him.
The sources said the NIA has already approached the JK Police to seek questioning of the accused but that it could take a few days as the cops are already investigating the case at their level.
The sources said a team of senior officials from the NIA are likely to fly from New Delhi to Jammu to question the accused.
“This is not a routine catch in terror cases. This man (Arif) was highly trained in carrying out terror strikes. To destroy evidence of the crime he would also burn his clothes, shoes and phone used for the commission of the crime
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so that is the level of terror specialization in his case,” said a senior official on the condition of the anonymity.
Meanwhile the sources close to the investigations said the accused, as per the preliminary investigations, had been getting training from his Pakistani handlers on the smartphone through video tutorials on how to execute terror plots in Jammu region
The sources said the main objective of the police at the moment is to “ascertain as to who all are linked to the module and who were providing the logistics.”
Its pertinent to mention that on February 1, the police in Rajauri arrested three persons in connection with the terror cases whereas the next day Arif was arrested.
It was from Arif that the police had recovered the “perfume bomb” which has sent the security grid to tizzy. It’s for the first time that such an explosive has been recovered in Jammu and Kashmir. Two serial blasts had rocked Narwal area of Jammu on January 21 and Arif is accused of being the mastermind
