Srinagar,
The National investigating Agency (NIA) on Saturday made second arrest in the 2016 Nagrota Army camp attack.

A timber dealer from south Kashmir, Tariq Ahmad Dar, 34, was arrested by the NIA during the investigation of the case. Tariq is a resident of Chillipura, Zanipora, Shopian.

“Tariq was involved in assisting Pakistani terrorists who carried out the attack,” an NIA spokesman said.

On May 26, the NIA had made a major breakthrough in the case when it arrested a resident of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri. He was accused of having received three Jaish militants, who had infiltrated into the Samba sector in the Jammu region, a day ahead of the attack. However, Qadri’s family denied the NIA allegation, claiming that he was being framed.

On early hours of November 29, 2016, three fidayeen militants stormed the Nagrota Army base. In the gunfight that followed seven soldiers and the three fidayeen ultras were killed. There was also a hostage crisis after militants entered into two buildings which were occupied by officers.

Tariq disclosed during interrogation that the attack was carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammad, a banned terror group based in Pakistan.

“His revelations corroborate disclosures made by the previously arrested accused Muneer-ul-Hassan Qadri of Kupwara who had revealed that he along with other Valley-based operatives were in touch with the Jaish leadership in Pakistan and had received a freshly infiltrated group of three Pakistani terrorists a day before the attack. Subsequently, they had stayed at a hotel in Jammu and then left the attackers at Nagrota outside the Army camp late at night and proceeded to the Kashmir valley,” the spokesman said.