New Delhi:
The URI terror attacks which have been severely condemned by all quarters in the Indian establishment shall be now investigated by the National Investigation Agency. NIA has filed an FIR in the Uri attacks case earlier in the day. A six member team shall be dispatched to Uri soon to collect evidence.
The agency will collect blood samples and fingerprints of the four slain terrorists. The Indian Army shall extend all the possible cooperation to the NIA by handing over all weapons, GPS, navigation map recovered from the terrorists and all other evidence unearthed so far in the terror attack.
As part of the investigation, the NIA will send GPS and icon satellite sets to the US for forensic investigation, in order to find out what route the terrorists chose, when and how they entered the area.
The government’s decision to hand over the case to NIA comes even as the investigating agency received no reply from the Pakistani authorities on the letter rogatory (judicial request for evidence) it had sent regarding the terrorist attack at the Pathankot airbase in January.
A senior NIA official said that as many as nine LRs are pending with Pakistan.“In the past two-three years, there have been nine instances when we have sent LRs to Pakistan seeking evidence to aid our case. There is irrefutable evidence of local Pakistani help in all these cases. We need to connect dots but Pakistan refuses to part with any information,” said the NIA official.
