India, May 17 -- A Pakistani man allegedly sent to Jammu and Kashmir to set up sleeper cells and execute attacks for the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ended up doing something may not really have put on his task list - getting a hair transplant in Srinagar.

According to interrogators, Mohammed Usman Jatt, alias 'Chinese', a trained LeT operative from Lahore, crossed the border into the Kashmir valley with instructions to carry out a series of attacks. What followed, if his alleged account to investigators is believed, was a mission that gradually unravelled into something far more personal.

Usman Jatt was arrested in early April by Srinagar Police alongside Abdullah, alias Abu Hureira, who was described as the longest-surviving LeT...