{"id":79877,"date":"2017-07-15T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=79877"},"modified":"2017-07-15T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T04:30:13","slug":"pdp-mlas-driver-touseef-ahmad-held-attack-amarnath-yatris-times-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=79877","title":{"rendered":"PDP MLA&#8217;s driver Touseef Ahmad held for attack on Amarnath yatris | Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Jammu &amp; Kashmir police detained on Friday a cop who serves as a driver for PDP MLA Aijaz Ahmad Mir for questioning in connection with this week&#8217;s terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">J&amp;K police detained driver of PDP MLA Aijaz Ahmad Mir for questioning in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmarnathTerrorAttack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmarnathTerrorAttack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/886067137663479808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After picking up Touseef Ahmad, a resident of Pulwama, police said the detention was related to a militancy case. Sources said two other persons had been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Seven pilgrims were killed and 21 injured in the attack on bus of pilgrims near Batengoo in Anantnag on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Touseef was deputed as the MLA&#8217;s driver from the security wing of J&amp;K police some seven months ago. IGP Muneer Kahn said Touseef, who has been found to have links with militants, is being questioned. &#8220;He is cooperating with us and spilling the beans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>J&amp;K police constituted a six-member special investigation team (SIT) on Friday to probe the Amarnath attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Jammu &amp; Kashmir police detained on Friday a cop who serves as a driver for PDP MLA Aijaz Ahmad Mir for questioning in connection with this week&#8217;s terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims. After picking up Touseef Ahmad, a resident of Pulwama, police said the detention was related to a militancy case. Sources said two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}