NIA files ‘supplementary chargesheet’ against one involved in activities of LeT offshoot TRF

The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the outlawed terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was the subject of a case that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed on Monday. The TRF is a terrorist organization that has been declared a foreign terrorist organization.

The chargesheet names Faisal Muneer alias Ali Bhai, a resident of Talab Khatikan in Jammu and Kashmir, for conspiring with LeT and TRF members based in Pakistan to transport weapons and explosives for the purpose of carrying out terrorist acts in India.

According to NIA investigation, Muneer had conspired with his handlers based across the border to deliver weapons and explosives consignments to active terrorist commanders and operatives of LeT and TRF for the commission of terror acts in India.

Muneer had actively worked for these terrorist organizations and had received money from LeT operatives with the intention of advancing its terrorist activities as part of the conspiracy hatched with other co-accused, handlers, and TRF and LeT operatives.

NIA had registered a suo moto case on November 18, 2021

In the case that was suo moto registered by the NIA on November 18, 2021, Muneer is the fourth person to be issued a chargesheet.

On June 18, November 9, and December 17, 2022, the NIA filed a chargesheet against the defendants Arsalan Feroz, alias Arsalan Soub, Muzamil Mushtaq Bhat, alias Hamza, and Mudasir Ahmed Dar.

All three accused were charged under various sections of the law after being discovered working as Overground Workers (OGWs) carrying out the orders of LeT and TRF operatives.

The NIA discovered during investigations that Muneer was actively serving as an OGW for LeT and TRF, receiving, gathering, and supplying weapons, explosives, and money. “These materials were sent and dropped from Pakistan via drones in the areas situated near the International Border area of Samba and Kathua for carrying out terrorist activities in India,”

On the orders of the LeT and TRF operatives based across the border, Muneer used to store the consignments after receiving them from his friends for later delivery to terrorist agents and their OGWs.

The NIA has charged Muneer under several sections of the Arms Act, IPC, and UA(P) Act, 1967 as stated in the Supplementary Chargesheet filed in the NIA Special Court in Patiala House.