NIA court frames charges against 2 LeT operatives

On January 1 and 2, 2023, seven people were killed in a terror attack in Rajouri's Dhangri village

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

Over two and a half years on, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court of special judge Sandeep Gandotra here, has framed charges against two alleged terror operatives of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for harbouring terrorists that killed seven Hindus in Dhangri village of Rajouri district on January 1 and 2 in 2023.

The two terror operatives Nisar Ahmed, alias Haji Nisar and Mushtaq Hussain, alias Chacha, are presently lodged in high security Kot Bhalwal central jail on the outskirts of the temple city here.

Seven civilians of Hindu community, two of them minors, a boy aged 4 and a girl aged 16, were killed in firing and IED blast triggered by two armed terrorists at Dhangri village in Rajouri district in January 2023.

The terrorists had carried out indiscriminate fire in the village on January 1 evening around 7.15 pm and had planted a timer fitted with an improvised explosive device (IED) before fleeing.

The IED exploded the next morning and killed two minors besides injuring nine others.