NIA founds nothing to back story of Hizbul militant Liyaqat alleged terror attacks in Delhi

NEW DELHI: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team visiting Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) has found nothing to back the Delhi Police story of Sayyed Liyaqat Shah's alleged terror designs for Delhi, further strengthening the case for an impending clean chit to him.

The NIA, which was transferred the case from the Delhi Police by the Home Ministry, sent a team to J&K on Thursday which has met senior J&K police officials and has also traveled to Shah's village in Kupwara to speak to his family.

The NIA has specifically spoken to Shah's second wife Akhtar-un-Nisa who had accompanied him on the trip from Pakistan to India through Nepal.

While Shah was arrested by the the Delhi Police on the Indo-Nepal border crossing point, his wife and her disabled daughter who accompanied him were put on a train to Jammu from Gorakhpur.

A source in the NIA say that both the J&K Police as well as Shah's family in Kupwara have completely denied the assertion that Shah was coming to India to launch a terror attack in Delhi.

J&K Police have told the NIA that he had applied under the J&K surrender-cum-rehabilitation scheme in 2011 and there were proper documentary records to prove that.

The sequence of events pieced together by Shah's family in Kupwara are also raising strong doubts on the Delhi Police version, a source in NIA said. Shah is presently lodged in the Tihar Jail.