Jammu,Sept 16: Two more students were arrested in Kishtwar on Thursday morning as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) closed in on the terror module behind the September 7 bombing that killed 14 and injured 70 outside Delhi High Court.Sources said Aamir Abbas of Kishtwar town and Hilal Amin of Nagseni were arrested after midnight raids by NIA and J&K police, reports Indian Express.
Amin is a Class XI student; Abbas studies Urdu at Moulana Azad University. Sources said both were members of Tableeghi Jamaat. Abbas's uncle, sources said, was killed in the 2008 communal riots in Kishtwar.
The arrests followed revelations made by two Class XI students — Abid Hussain and Shariq Ahmed of Islamia Faridia Higher Secondary School — arrested on Wednesday for sending the terror e-mail to media houses soon after the blast.
Sources said Abbas gave them the mail in a pen drive with addresses of recepients. He told them to send it after the blast. Hussain and Ahmed bunked school on September 7 and watched news channels at home. After the blast was reported, they went to Global Internet Café and sent the mail.The mail, sent in the name of HuJI, claimed responsibility, and threatened more attacks if the death sentence on Afzal Guru was not repealed.
Cyber café owner Mehmood Aziz Khawaja and his manager Ashwani Kumar too are in police custody. Sources said more arrests were likely, as a well-knit terror network spread from Kishtwar to Delhi is suspected to have been involved.
At a hurriedly called press conference this evening, NIA chief S C Sinha said, “The investigation is very delicately poised. Publication or telecast of any information... will have extremely adverse effect on the future course of investigation.”Sinha denied reports that NIA had cracked the case. “Whatever has appeared in media... is speculative in nature and denied,” he said.
The e-mail account harkatuljehadi@gmail.com, from which the mail was sent, was created on a computer in the café, sources said, adding that its clock was tampered with to mislead agencies.
