NIA team likely to file FIR in Pulwama terror attack

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, along with explosives and forensic experts, had collected the materials required for a forensic evaluation of the scene of the crime.

40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district on Thursday./ AFP

NEW DELHI: The investigators of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are likely to file an FIR in the Pulwama terror attack case. Earlier, an NIA team, along with explosives and forensic experts, had collected the materials required for a forensic evaluation of the scene of the crime. Considering the status of the scene of the crime, the team will continue with sifting of the material on Saturday as well. The outcome will be made known once the analysis is over. The overall planning of the terror strike is believed to be done by a Pakistani national, Kamran of JeM, who has been operating and moving in the Pulwama, Awantipora and Tral areas of south Kashmir. The "fidayeen" (suicide attacker) was identified as Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama. He had joined the JeM in 2018. 40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district on Thursday. More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora in south Kashmir.