A juvenile has been apprehended for harbouring terrorists concerned within the killing of 5 civilians in Dangri village of district Rajouri of Jammu and Kashmir in January final 12 months, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) mentioned on Sunday.
The juvenile was taken into custody on Saturday by the NIA and produced earlier than the Juvenile Justice Board, Rajouri, for remand.
5 individuals belonging to the minority Hindu group had been killed within the assault on January 1, 2023.
Earlier, two individuals — Nisar Ahmed alias Haji Nisar and Mushtaq Hussain alias Chacha — had been arrested for allegedly harbouring the terrorists.
The NIA mentioned the duo had supplied logistic assist to the terrorists for greater than two months and had sheltered them in a hideout, which that they had constructed on the instructions of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) handlers, specifically Saifullah alias Sajid Jutt, Abu Qatal alias Qatal Sindhi and Mohammad Qasim.
A workforce of NIA officers had often camped within the hilly terrain of Rajouri, Poonch and Reasi districts of J&Ok in quest of precise perpetrators of the offence throughout the course of investigations.
The investigations within the case are nonetheless below course of, the NIA mentioned.