The J&K Police on Monday filed the charge-sheet against eight Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorists, including three Pakistan nationals, involved in the last year’s terror attack in which eight Amarnath pilgrims travelling in a bus were killed and several injured.

One of the accused is a juvenile and as such his name was not mentioned by the police in its press release.

The terror attack had generated countrywide condemnation and the PDP-BJP coalition government also came under criticism for not providing adequate security to the pilgrims.

The 1,500 page charge-sheet has also accused the Pakistan based LeT of having engineered the attack on the bus carrying the pilgrims.

Eleven LeT operatives have been named in the charge-sheet, but three of them, who were Pakistani nationals, have been killed in different encounters. The main accused listed in the charge-sheet, Abu Ismail (a Pakistani national) was killed in an encounter at Arigam (Nowgam), Srinagar, on 14 September last year. Yawar Bashir  @ Ayaan, Maaviya and Furqaan  (both Pakistani nationals)  were killed in an  encounter at Qazigund in South Kashmir last month on 20 December.

A SIT formed to investigate the terror attack, filed a comprehensive charge-sheet against 8 accused persons before the Sessions Court at Anantnag and  Chief Judicial Magistrate (Juvenile Court), Anantnag.

During the course of investigation, it was established that Pakistan based LeT terrorists were involved in the terror attack. Further, on the basis of evidence collected during the course of investigation, complicity of  11 people was established, out of which four persons, including one juvenile, were arrested in the instant case.

Accused, Khalid Muzafar Dar of Rehpora Khudwani, Tanveer Ahmad Dar of Rehpora Khudwani and Sarjeel Ahmad Shiekh of Khudwani are absconding in the case.

The accused persons in the case identified as Aijaz, Bilal and Zahoor were arrested and are presently in judicial custody. Further, during the course of investigation, one of the accused, a juvenile, was also arrested and is currently out on bail.