PDP’s Waheed Parra was arrested in Delhi, the place he was being questioned by probe company NIA since Monday.
New Delhi:
The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Wednesday arrested PDP youth wing President, and celebration chief Mehbooba Mufti’s shut help, Waheed Parra for his alleged hyperlinks in a terror circumstances involving Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Naveed Babu.
“He (Parra) has been charged with supporting Hizbul actions and for his alleged involvement within the case of arrested Hizbul Commander Naveen Babu,” a senior NIA officer informed NDTV.
In accordance with the officer, Parra was arrested in Delhi, the place he was being questioned on the NIA headquarters since Monday for his alleged involvement with the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist group.
“Throughout his questioning, we had been in a position to set up his complicity (with Naveed Babu). He could be produced in Delhi for transit remand, after which taken to Jammu,” he added.
Parra was instrumental within the revival of the PDP in south Kashmir, particularly in militancy-infested Pulwama, from the place he additionally filed his nomination for the District Growth Council (DDC) elections – first part of which shall be held on November 28.
His identify surfaced in the course of the probe into the case of suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, who was arrested earlier this 12 months whereas ferrying two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in a automobile on the Srinagar-Jammu Freeway.
“Right this moment, the NIA arrested Waheed Ur Rehman Parra, the youth wing chief of Folks’s Democratic Occasion, in reference to the Naveed Babu-Davinder Singh case for supporting Hizbul Mujahideen in conspiracy with the opposite accused individuals,” NIA spokesperson informed NDTV.
His arrest invited sharp remarks from PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, who additionally shared a video of the then Residence Minister Rajnath Singh “applauding him for strengthening democracy in J&Ok” on Twitter.
PDP’s @parawahid applauded by then HM @rajnathsingh for strengthening democracy in J&Ok has been arrested on baseless expenses by NIA at the moment. No coincidence that he filed his nomination for DDC on twentieth Nov & acquired NIA summons subsequent day itself. pic.twitter.com/8aYhHBkKNl
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) November 25, 2020
“Waheed has no connection in any way with this man and is being falsely charged. All simply to blackmail and intimidate PDP and different mainstream political events in J&Ok,” she wrote.
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