Pulwama terror attack accused dies of heart attack in GMC Hospital in Jammu

'Pulwama terror attack accused dies of heart attack in GMC Hospital in Jammu '

The 32 year old man charge sheeted in the deadly terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama district five years ago in 2019 has died of a heart attack in the Government Medical College Hospital Jammu today. Akashvani Jammu Correspondent reports that Bilal Ahmad Kuchey of Hajibal village of Kakapora in Pulwama district was among 19 people formally charged in the case. Forty CRPF personnel were killed and eight more injured when a terrorist of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad rammed his explosive-laden car into a convoy in Lethpora area of Pulwama district on February 14, 2019. Kuchey was hospitalised on September 17 after he fell sick at the Kishtwar district jail. He died of a heart attack on Monday night. Kuchey and 18 other accused in the case were chargesheeted by the National Investigation Agency on August 25, 2020. He was among the seven accused arrested in the case. Kuchey and the other accused Shakir Bashir, Insha Jan and Peer Tariq Ahmad Shah had provided logistics and harboured the JeM terrorists in their homes. The charge sheet was filed under various sections of the Ranbir Penal Code, Arms Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Foreigners Act and the J&K Public Property (Prevention of Damages) Act. While six terrorists, including three Pakistanis, involved in the terror attack were killed in separate encounters, six more, including JeM founder Masood Azhar are still at large.