Businessman who helped Udhampur terrorists missing

A hunt has been launched for a businessman, who is alleged to have paid money to Mohammed Naved Yakub, a Pakistani terrorist who was caught alive last week after the Udhampur terror strike in which two Border Security Force personnel were killed.

Facing persistent questioning by a host of interrogators, Naved has now told them he has shared all information available with him and that there was nothing more.

"Mere kol jitna bhi tha, mein dus ditta. Haur mere kol kuch na hai, mainu tang na karo (I have shared whatever Iknew. I don't know anything beyond this. Please stop asking meagain and again)," Naved reportedly told his interrogatorswhen he was being questioned again about the route hetook for infiltration.

The language spoken by him is generally used in Faisalabad and Sialkot areas of Pakistan, his interrogators said.

Naved was taken to Jammu and produced before a special National Investigation Agency court for further remand.

Meanwhile, based on information provided by him, police and central security agencies have launched a manhunt for a businessman who is alleged to have paid him and Mohammed Noman alias Momin Rs 5 lakh for sharing it with other Lashkar-e-Tayiba cadre.

The businessman, who reportedly owns a shop in uptown Srinagar, had provided the money to the Naved and his handlers to run the LeT network in Kashmir and to carry out terror strikes.

So far 11 people have been rounded up by the police based on information provided by Naved during his interrogation and all of them are being questioned, the sources said.

Naved's interrogators said he was changing statements frequently and had given four different accounts of the route he and his accomplices took to infiltrate India.

After undergoing two modules of training with LeT, Naved is perceived to be a hardened militant who is trying to confuse his interrogators, a tactic apparently aimed at buying time for his other accomplices in the terror network to slip away. He had undergone two training modules -- Daur-e-Aam and Daura-e-Khas. While the first module teaches LeT cadres physical fitness, mountaineering and use of small arms, in the second they are trained in using assault rifles and manufacture of small explosives.

A case under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Arms Act and various sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Naved, who has claimed he hails from Faisalabad in Pakistan. His accomplice, identified by him as Noman alias Momin, was killed in retaliatory firing by BSF during the terror attack.

The NIA team will also examine the BSF personnel, who were in the convoy that had come under attack, and local villagers who captured the armed terrorist, sources said.

Image: Lashkar terrorist Mohammed Naved Yakub