New Delhi: The NIA in its chargesheet reveals that the lone woman arrested in the Pulwama investigation played a crucial role in facilitating the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists who carried out the deadly suicide attack last year.

Insha Jan, 23, was involved with main conspirator Mohd Umar Farooq, the Pakistani bomb-maker killed in Kashmir by security forces in March. She was in touch with him on the phone and other social media platforms, claimed NIA.

According to the NIA sources, “We have retrieved many messages exchanged between them which suggest their proximity and we have mentioned this in our charge-sheet,” a day after the agency filed a 13,500-page charge-sheet. Insha Jan’s father Tariq Pir was also aware of the relationship.

Tariq Pir allegedly facilitated the movement of Umar Farooq and two other associates in and around Pulwama. “The father-daughter duo provided Umar Farooq, Sameer Dar and Adil Ahmed Dar (the three key players in the attack) food, shelter and other logistics on more than 15 occasions. The terrorists stayed for two to four days at a time at their home, several times between 2018 and 2019,” the NIA sources revealed.

Over 40 soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a security convoy at Pulwama on February 14 last year. The NIA says Adil Ahmed Dar was the suicide bomber. The NIA chargesheet states that Insha Jan used to pass on information about the movement of security forces to Umar Farooq, the nephew of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, a terror mastermind wanted in India for the 26/11 attacks. Masood Azhar is named as the key conspirator in the Pulwama terror.