NIA charge sheets Saeed in Pahalgam terror attack
New Delhi, July 7 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed even as it provided more details of Pakistan's role in last year's terror attack in Pahalgam's Baisaran meadow, in which 25 tourists and a pony operator were killed, setting off a four-day armed conflict between India and Pakistan.
The federal anti-terror probe agency said Hafiz Saeed, who is a designated terrorist, has been named in the supplementary charge sheet, filed in a Jammu court, in his individual capacity for the conspiracy and also as the chief of LeT and its proxy outfit The Resistance Front (TRF).
"NIA on Monday filed charges against Pakistan-based terrorist and LeT/TRF chief and founder Hafiz Saeed in the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack case," the agency said in a statement.
"The chargesheet, filed in continuation of the original 1,597-page charge sheet (filed on December 15 last year), provides details of Pakistan's conspiracy, Hafiz Saeed's role, and supporting evidence collected by NIA in the case through meticulous scientific investigation and on-ground examination," the agency said.
The most-wanted terrorist, who is behind several attacks in India including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been charged for sections pertaining to terrorism of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. "NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border in the charge sheet," the agency said.
The investigations, NIA said, are still continuing to unravel the complete conspiracy by Pakistan, which has been actively sponsoring terrorism on Indian soil from across the border.
In its first charge sheet filed in December, NIA named three Pakistani terrorists who shot the tourists at Baisaran, Faisal Jatt alias Suleman, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran Bhai and Hamza Afghani (who were later killed during Operation Mahadev in July 2025),
The Resistance Front (TRF) leader Sajid Saiffullah Jatt aka Langda, two locals, Bashir Ahmad Jothatd and his nephew Parvaiz Ahmad (arrested in June last year) and LeT/TRF.
NIA has concluded in its probe that the April 22, 2025 terror attack "involved religion-based targeted killings by the Pak-sponsored terrorists".
In its first charge sheet, reported in detail by HT on May 22, NIA stated that Sajid Saiffullah Jatt shared the co-ordinates of the Baisaran meadow with the attackers and that one of the terrorists involved was also part of a terror strike on the Srinagar-Leh highway in October 2024.
The first charge sheet also revealed that the three terrorists involved sat outside the Baisaran meadow and had lunch before launching their attack, and indulged in celebratory firing after it.
According to the first charge sheet , data retrieved from two phones recovered from the terrorists revealed "chats with Sajid Jatt giving directions to them ... and screen shots of Alpine Quest app showing co-ordinates of locations near Baisaran Park". Both phones, NIA said, based on data from the Indian arm of the phone manufacturer Xiaomi, were sold in Pakistan.
NIA's first charge sheet says that the investigation "conclusively established that the Pahalgam (Baisaran) terror attack was planned, directed, and controlled from Pakistan".
The terror attack brought India and Pakistan at the brink of a full-scale war. India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7 and struck terror and military installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) before the May 10 ceasefire....
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