India to formally request Pak for information on terrorist Naveed

Naved’s interrogators said he was changing statements frequently and had given four different accounts of the route he and his accomplices took to infiltrate India.

NIA will also be sending a letter rogatory through the court to Pakistan asking for confirmation of the address and family details of the captured terrorists in Udhampur, Mohammad Naveed.

NDTV says NIA will make its requests under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, a pact it has with some 40 countries but not Pakistan.

After undergoing two modules of training with LeT, Naved is perceived to be a hardened militant who is trying to confuse his interrogators, a tactic apparently aimed at buying time for his other accomplices in the terror network to slip away, the sources said. A special court of the National Investigating Agency granted custody of Naved for 14 days. The special NIA judge was requested to open the court at 7 am on Tuesday to avoid any rush following apprehensions that the terrorist, in his early 20s, could be eliminated by Lashkar-e-Taiba to destroy evidence of Pakistani involvement in the terror attack.

They said the publishing of reports in media helped some of the handlers and Over Ground Workers in touch with Naved to plan their escape and cover up operations.

The NIA which took custody of Naved yesterday night from the Jammu and Kashmir police produced him before the court today and sought his remand in order to question him. His accomplice, identified by him as Noman alias Momin, was killed in retaliatory firing by BSF during the terror attack. Naved was caught by some villagers whom he had taken hostage.

Naveed might have confessed that the BSF convoy he attacked on August 5 at Samroli was the main target of his group’s fidayeen strike but the officials believe that the real target could have been Udhampur-based headquarters of the Army’s Northern Command.