NIA names LeT Chief Hafiz Saeed in Pahalgam attack chargesheet

New Delhi : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed charges against Pakistan-based terrorist and LeT/TRF chief and founder Hafiz Saeed in the Pahalgam terror attack case that left 26 civilians, mostly tourists, dead.

According to a statement, issued to news agency the anti-terror agency has charged Hafiz Saeed in his individual capacity and also as the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit and its active proxy organisation The Resistance Front (TRF).

The accused has been charged under various sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border in the chargesheet.

The chargesheet, filed in continuation of the original 1,597-page chargesheet, provides details of Pakistan’s conspiracy, Hafeez Saeed’s role, and supporting evidence collected by NIA in the case through meticulous scientific investigation and on-ground examination.

On December last year, NIA had chargesheeted Pakistani handler terrorist Sajid Jatt as an accused, along with three terrorists killed by security forces during Operation Mahadev in July 2025, as well as two arrested accused. It had also charged the proscribed LeT/TRF terrorist organisation as a legal entity for its role in planning, facilitating, and executing the Pahalgam terror attack.

25 tourists and a local civilian were killed in the deadlu attack in the Baisaran Valley of Pahalgam on April 22 last year—(KNO)