Pulwama terror attack suspect Bilal Kuchey dies of heart attack Bilal Kuchey, accused of abetting JeM terrorists in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack, suffered a heart attack and died.
The NIA had filed charges against Kuchey and 18 others for aiding the JeM terrorists.
Five years after being charge-sheeted in the horrific terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, a 32-year-old man accused of involvement in the incident died of a heart attack today at a Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu.
News agency PTI reported that Bilal Ahmad Kuchey, a resident of Hajibal village in Kakapora, was one of the 19 people charged in the case.
On February 14, 2019, in Lethpora in Pulwama, a terror attack claimed 40 lives of personnel belonging to the CRPF while leaving eight injured.
A suicide bomber affiliated with Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the CRPF convoy.
Officials reported that Kuchey was admitted to the hospital on September 17. He died on the night of Monday due to a heart attack.
Kuchey, along with 18 other accused, was charged by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on August 25, 2020, for his alleged role in the Pulwama attack. Of these, seven people were arrested out of them.
Besides these other accused people, Shakir Bashir, Insha Jan, and Peer Tariq Ahmad Shah, Kuchey were accused of harboring and abetting JeM terrorists.
Charges were invoked under multiple laws, which included the Ranbir Penal Code, Arms Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Foreigners Act, and J&K Public Property (Prevention of Damages) Act.
As many as six of the terrorists who carried out the attack were killed in separate encounters, including three Pakistani nationals. However, six others, including JeM founder Masood Azhar, are still untraced.
The Pulwama attack was a motivated conspiracy by the JeM leadership based in Pakistan,” stated the NIA, which adds that JeM cadres were given training in Afghanistan in collaboration with groups of Al-Qaeda, Taliban, and Haqqani where they were being taught to use explosives and tactics of terror.
