NIA arrests Budgam man for ‘transporting Pulwama bomb maker`
(WorldNews India)

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday made its sixth arrest in the February 2019 Pulwama attack case. Budgam resident Mohammed Iqbal Rather was arrested by NIA for allegedly transporting Pakistani bomb-maker Mohammed Umer from the Jammu border to Pulwama. Umer and his associates allegedly fitted a bomb in a car that was driven by Kakpora resident Adil Ahmed Dar and exploded near a CRPF bus, killing 40 personnel, on February 14, 2019. Sources said Rather was arrested in September last year in connection with a Jaish-e-Mohammed conspiracy case. He was lodged in jail, from where the NIA took him into custody in the Pulwama case after evidence surfaced that he played a part in...