Police detain PDP MLA's driver in connection with attack on Amarnath pilgrims
Touseef Amhad, the detained man, is a resident of Pulwama.
Seven pilgrims were killed and 21 injured in the attack on the pilgrims who were travelling in a bus near Batengoo in Anantnag on Monday.
Touseef had been deputed by the security wing of J & K police as the MLA's driver.
“Touseef and his two associates were detained on the charges of militant links and there are possibilities that they are involved in the deadly Amarnath attack”, a senior police official in Srinagar told India Blooms pleading anonymity.
Superintendent of police Shopian, Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar, however, said Touseef was picked up only for questioning related to other militannt activities and his detention in not in connection with the Amarnath terror attack.
“Wait for some days and truth will come forward and we will update you accordingly,” he told India Blooms.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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