NIA chief to brief NSA Doval today on what Naved has revealed so far

August 21, 2015 08:49

NIA chief Sharad Kumar is likely to brief National Security Advisor A K Doval today on the progress made so far in probing arrested Pakistani militant Mohammed Naved Yakub ahead of the NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan, sources in the anti-terror agency said.

Kumar flew down to Srinagar yesterday to review the progress made during the interrogation of Naved, a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, who was captured by locals after the recent terror strike on a BSF bus at Udhampur in Jammu which left two personnel of the border guarding force dead.

Sources in the agency said some people with whom Naved came into contact during his stay in Jammu and Kashmir may also be questioned.

In Srinagar, Kumar met senior police officials and members of the NIA team, besides calling on state Governor N N Vohra.

"Kumar briefed the Governor about the working of NIA, which has been established as the Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency of Government of India, and about the up-to-date status of the investigation in the recent Udhampur

terror attack," a spokesman for the Raj Bhawan said.

The NIA chief also met Lt Gen Subrata Saha, Commander of the strategic 15 corps as the army was interested in knowing about the route the terrorist had taken to enter the Kashmir valley.

The NIA has also taken DNA and voice samples of Naved.

Sources said the DNA sample would come in handy to prove the militant's Pakistani nationality. While Naved has told his interrogators he is from Faislabad in Pakistan's Punjab province, Islamabad has been insisting he is not a Pakistani national.

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