NIA seized Hyundai i20 Car bearing registration no. JK-03H-1738, a Maruti 800 Car bearing registration No. JK-13B-0814 and Hyundai i20 Sportz Car bearing registration No. JK-01AK-8878

New Delhi, February 18

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) seized vehicles from former DySP Devender Singh in the arms seizure case. 

The NIA seized Hyundai i20 Car bearing registration no. JK-03H-1738, a Maruti 800 Car bearing registration No. JK-13B-0814 and Hyundai i20 Sportz Car bearing registration No. JK-01AK-8878. 

The officials stared that the vehicles have been seized under sections 25 (1) of the UA (P), Act These vehicles were used by accused persons for the furtherance of terror activities in Kashmir Valley. 

The case pertains to arrest of four accused persons, including two active terrorists of Hizb-ul- Mujahideen (HM), who were going out of the UT of J&K in order to commit terrorist acts, in a Hyundai i20 Car bearing Registration No. JK-03H-1738. 

Based on information, this car was intercepted at Al-Stop naka on Srinagar-Jammu Highway, near Mir Bazar Police Post, District Kulgam (J&K), in January 2020. 

During the search, one AK-47 Rifle, 03 pistols, 01 hand grenade, ammunition and other incriminating material were recovered and seized. The case was initially registered in PS Qazigund, District Kulgam, J&K in January 2020 and re-registered by NIA same month. 

The NIA investigations have revealed that the Hyundai i20 owned and used by accused Irfan Shafi Mir, Maruti 800 registered in the name of Mushtaq Ahmad Shah and used by his son accused Syed Naveed Mushtaq Ahmad Shah, and Hyundai i20 Sportz registered and used by Tanveer Ahmad Wani s/o Ghulam Ahmad Wani resident of Humhama, Srinagar (J&K), were used for terror activities in Kashmir Valley.  

The agency us further investigating the case.