New Delhi: On Thursday, Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) terrorist Sajjad Khan, a close associate of Pulwama attack mastermind Mudassir Ahmed Khan. Sajjad was arrested night from Red Fort area in the national capital. He was roaming in Delhi as a trader of shawls. Sajjad is an aide of Mudassir - alias 'Mohd Bhai' - who had been eliminated by the Indian Army earlier this month. Khan was eliminated in Tral encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

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Pramod Singh Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) told "Muddasir, the mastermind of Pulwama attack was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir recently,". An officer as saying "Sajjad was tasked by Mudassir to establish a sleeper cell in Delhi,". Sajjad had knowledge about the Pulwama attack. He was in contact with Pulwama mastermind Mudasir, who was killed in an encounter.

Reports suggest that he had provided the van used in the attack and explosives to Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar. He was also involved in plotting multiple IED blasts in Kashmir valley. Earlier, in a joint operation carried out by the Indian Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police, Mudassir Ahmad Khan, a 23-year-old electrician, was killed on March 12. Mudassir was the main conspirator of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack which resulted in the death of 40 CRPF personnel on Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir.

However, the security forces have launched a massive anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir following the Pulwama attack, in which a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, one Adil Ahmad Dar rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a 78-vehicle CRPF convoy. Following the attack, the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out air strikes at JeM training camps in Balakot in Pakistan.

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