SRINAGAR – Jaish-e-Mohammed Mudasir Ahmed Khan, alias ‘Mohd Bhai’, hasbeen identified as the brains behind the audacious strike in Pulwama thatleft 40 CRPF personnel dead on February 14, officials said on Sunday.
Piecing together evidence gathered so far, security officials said that23-year-old Khan, an electrician with a graduate degree hailing fromPulwama district, arranged the vehicle and explosives used in the strike,India today has reported.
A resident of Mir Mohalla of Tral, Khan joined the Jaish-e-Mohammedsometime in 2017 as an overground worker and was later drawn into the JeMfold by Noor Mohammed Tantrey, alias ‘Noor Trali’, who is believed to havehelped in the revival of the outfit in Kashmir Valley.
After Tantray was killed in December 2017, Khan disappeared from his homeon January 14, 2018 and has been active since then.
Suicide attacker Adil Ahmed Dar, who blew his explosive-laden vehicle nextto a bus in a CRPF convoy on February 14, had been in constant contact withKhan, they said.
After completing his graduation, Khan did a one-year diploma course aselectrician from an industrial training institute (ITI). The eldest son ofa labourer, Khan is also believed to be involved in the strike at the armycamp in Sunjawan in February 2018, in which six personnel and a civilianwere killed.
His role has also come under lens in the Lethpora attack on a CRPF camp inJanuary 2018 that left five CRPF personnel dead.
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the February 14 attack, had carried out searches at the residence of Khan on February 27.
A Maruti Eeco minivan was used in the Pulwama terror attack and it wasbought by another Jaish-e-Mohammed operative just 10 days before the strike.
The JeM operative, identified as Sajjad Bhat, a resident of Bijbehara insouth Kashmir, has since been on the run and is believed to have become anactive militant now, they said.
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