Security has been beefed up of the National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. Security agencies have taken this step after getting a video of the roaming of a terrorist near his office. Actually, the terrorist of Jaish-e-Mohammed living in Shopian, Kashmir was arrested on 6 February. This video has surfaced during his interrogation. The terrorist was supposed to send these videos to his Pakistani handler, who he knew as a doctor.
Media reports quoting sources related to the matter said that Jaish's terrorist Hidayatullah Malik told during interrogation that he had roamed around Doval's office and some other important buildings at the behest of his Pakistani handlers.
Hidayatullah Malik was arrested in Anantnag. He is the chief of Jaish's front group Lashkar-e-Mustafa. Large number of ammunition was recovered from Malik at the time of his arrest. According to sources, Malik told that he had come to Delhi from Srinagar on 24 May 2019 on an IndiGo flight. Malik was to make a video of the security arrangements of the CISF apart from Doval's office, Sardar Patel Bhavan. Malik was supposed to send these videos to Pakistani handlers through WhatsApp.
During interrogation, Malik said that the Pakistani handler who had to send the video of Doval's office is named Doctor. Malik had returned to Kashmir after making a video of security arrangements. He also told that in the summer of 2019, he also made a video of the Samba Sector Border Area. He did this with Sameer Ahmed Dar. Sameer was arrested on 21 January 2020 in the Pulwama attack case.
According to reports, Malik also stated during interrogation that he was given a Santro car in May 2020 for a suicide attack. For this, Malik along with his teammates Irfan Thokar, Omar Mushtaq, and Rais Mustafa looted Rs 60 lakh from a cash van of a bank in Jammu and Kashmir. Malik has also given the contact number, code name of 10 people based in Pakistan during interrogation. Based on this detail, two contacts of Malik were piled up in Shopian and Sopore.
Malik joined Hizbul Mujahideen in July 2019. Prior to this, he worked as an overground worker of Jaish. However, he was later shifted to Jaish. In February this year, he formed Jaish's front group Lashkar-e-Mustafa.
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NSA Doval has been under attack from Pakistan-based terrorist organizations after the Uri surgical strike and the Balakot airstrike. Doval also has an old rivalry with Jaish kingpin Masood Azhar. Doval interrogated Masood Azhar when he was arrested in 1994. After the Kandahar plane hijack in 1999, Doval took Masood Azhar to Kandahar Airport.