Overview
- NIA officials said Sunday that Mohammed Usman Jatt told interrogators he underwent a hair transplant in Srinagar after crossing from Pakistan.
- Srinagar Police arrested Jatt in early April with Abdullah, known as Abu Hureira, after the pair allegedly entered to set up sleeper bases for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- Information he provided helped police break up an Over Ground Worker ring in North Kashmir and Srinagar, according to officials.
- Over Ground Workers are civilian helpers who arrange shelter, transport, and cover for militants, which lets covert cells operate and move supplies.
- The case has been handed to the NIA, which is testing interstate links as Jatt also described plans to seek Indian IDs and a passport like an infiltrator who fled using forged papers, with reports noting echoes of the Al Falah bust and the Red Fort probe.