00:05Viewers, our next focus is again back to the domestic arena itself.
00:10It's with regards to a certain operation that's been launched,
00:13a NIA operation that's been launched into probing that terrorist attack
00:16that took place in Kulgam just a few days ago.
00:19What we are learning about right now is the fact that the NIA team
00:23visited the Kulgam attack site itself,
00:26probe points to three terrorists, two suspected non-locals,
00:30a team from the National Investigation Agency
00:32inspected the site of terror attack on a CRPF checkpoint
00:36in South Kashmir's Kulgam district,
00:38in which three security personnel were injured.
00:42Preliminary investigations indicate the involvement of at least three terrorists,
00:48including two suspected non-locals, during their very visit.
00:52NIA officials examined the crime scene and collected forensic evidence
00:55to reconstruct the very sequence of events and identify the perpetrator.
01:01So this is what we are learning so far.
01:03We are being joined by Meir Fareed, who has in fact been keeping a very close track
01:08of the entire story and the developments that's been happening with the probe
01:12having been launched ever since.
01:13Meir, a very good afternoon to you.
01:16Just to get some details about the NIA's probe and the team having reached there,
01:21three terrorists is what's being suspected and two non-locals also being involved
01:26in the entire activities that came up, unfolded a few days back.
01:32That's right Sri, in fact, preliminary investigation suggests that there were three people involved in it.
01:37Two non-locals, as you rightly said, who most probably were the hits called people who fired
01:42and one local who most probably was a navigator, someone who nipped the area
01:47and could have arranged their access to this particular point and then they escaped routes.
01:53Now, sources say the NIA team was also at the location, as you said,
01:57they were there because most of the terror incidents that happened in Jammu and Kashmir of late,
02:03ultimately NIA takes over the investigation.
02:05It seems that it could happen in this case as well.
02:08But yes, NIA team was there and with the help of the local police did visit the spot for forensic
02:16evidence, etc.
02:17And also, importantly, our sources say that three could be involved now,
02:22exactly the names they are trying to verify.
02:26But we know that Latif is a local Lashkar commander who has been involved in two similar kind of terror
02:35incidents in Kashmir Valley this year.
02:37And the first suspicion, obviously, was on him.
02:41But till there is credible evidence that suggests that, yes, he was the main man,
02:46all other angles of investigation will remain open, which also includes the probability of a sleeper cell that may have
02:54got activated,
02:54which could have local as well as non-local terrorists.
02:58So multiple possibilities.
02:59But yes, investigations have been fast-tracked, not only by the local police, but now the NIA into this as
03:06well.
03:06And further investigations will continue and most probably more leads would really lead to more people being rounded up.
03:15Because already there are many who have been detained for questioning most probably the OGW network that could have been
03:23involved in facilitating this.
03:25Shreya?
03:25Right, right.
03:26Thank you for bringing us those exhaustive details with regards to the probe that's been launched.
03:30We are keeping a very close track of the story, viewers.
