The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in a 1,597-page chargesheet, named seven accused in the Pahalgam terror attack case, including the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF) terrorist organisation. The chargesheet was filed in a NIA Special Court here on Monday afternoon.
The chargesheet, which details Pakistan’s conspiracy, roles of the accused, and supporting evidence in the case, has charged the banned LeT and TRF as a legal entity for its role in planning, facilitating, and executing the Pahalgam attack.
The attack that involved religion-based targeted killings by the Pak-sponsored terrorists left 25 tourists and one local civilian dead.
Pakistani handler terrorist Sajid Jatt is also named as an accused in the chargesheet. The chargesheet further names the three Pakistani terrorists killed by Indian security forces during the action in Operation Mahadev at Dachigam, Srinagar, in July 2025, weeks after the deadly terror attack. The three have been identified as Faisal Jatt @ Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir @ Jibran, and Hamza Afghani.
LeT/TRF, as well as the four above mentioned terrorists, have been charged under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the Arms Act, 1959, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. In its chargesheet, the NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India.
The Central investigating agency, through a meticulous scientific probe, spanning the past almost eight months, traced the conspiracy in the case RC-02/2025/NIA/JMU to Pakistan, which has been undoubtedly sponsoring terrorism against India.
The two accused persons viz Parvaiz Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad Jothatd were arrested by the NIA on 22nd June 2025 for harbouring terrorists have also been chargesheeted. During interrogation, the two men had disclosed the identities of the three armed terrorists involved in the attack, and had also confirmed that they were Pakistani nationals affiliated to proscribed LeT terror outfit.
Further investigation in the case is on.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah told reporters in Srinagar, “The chargesheet is being filed, and the decision will be taken by the court. I have always maintained that such matters should be left to the judiciary. It is not my job, or anyone else’s, to decide who is guilty or innocent. There is a law, and there is a court, and the court will decide. The NIA’s job was to conduct the investigation, and the investigation has been carried out.”