Delhi court grants 7-day custody of Hizbul operative Mattu to Special Cell

New Delhi [India], January 5 : Delhi's Patiala House Court on Friday granted seven-day custody of Javed Ahmed Mattu to the Special Cell of Delhi Police. He is allegedly involved in 11 known terror cases, including an attack on the residences of SP and CRPF personnel. He had been evading arrest for the last 13 years.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Nabeela Wali allowed the application of Delhi police and granted seven-day custody for Javed Ahmed Mattu, alias Irshad Ahmed Malla, alias Ehsan.
The Delhi police special cell sought seven-day custody of the accused to interrogate him.
Delhi police sought police custody remand on the ground that the accused, Javed Ahmed Mattu, collected the arms and ammunition from Delhi at the instruction of his Pak-based handler. The source who provided arms and ammunition to the accused is to be traced.
Secondly, the police said that the accused revealed that he planned to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir with the assistance of his accomplices based in Delhi. The accomplices are to be traced in Delhi.
Thirdly, the police said the custody remand is required to unearth the entire conspiracy hatched by his Pak-based handler to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India.
Delhi police also submitted that the accused can identify the houses of his accomplices in Jammu and Kashmir who were to help him carry out terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
The police submitted that the data from the mobile phone of the accused is to be extracted and the same has to be confronted with the accused.
Advocate Rahul Sahni appeared for the accused, Javed Ahmed Mattu.
Hizbul Mujahideen operative Javed Mattu was produced before the Patiala House Court on Friday after his arrest by the special cell of Delhi police on Thursday.
He has allegedly been involved in multiple cases of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
As per Delhi police, Mattu is an operative of the banned terror organisation Hizbul Mujahideen. He is involved in 11 known terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
On January 4, 2024, information was received that Javed Ahmed Mattu, a resident of Sopor, would be coming to Delhi to collect arms and ammunition from his associates at the behest of PAK ISI, Delhi police said.
The Delhi police were also informed that his Pakistan-based handler Abdul Majid Jergar, alias Shaheen, would be coordinating the delivery of arms and ammunition, and Javed Ahmed Mattu would carry out some audacious terror strikes in J & K and another place on the instructions of his Pakistan-based handler.
Delhi police arrested Mattu and recovered one 9 mm Star pistol with six live cartridges, one extra magazine, and one stolen Santro car from him.
A case has been registered in this regard at the PS Special Cell.
Delhi police also stated that Javed Ahmed Mattu is a college dropout. He is a member of the gang of seven dreaded terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen operating in the area of North Kashmir, particularly Sopore, J&K.
After getting injured in an exchange of fire with security forces, he went underground and fled to Nepal on the instructions of Pak ISI, as J&K police were hotly on the chase of him, Delhi police said on Thursday.
It is alleged that he was involved in the killing of HC Mohd. Yousf of CID, Sopore, near Police Station Sopore in 2010. He was also allegedly involved in an attack on the residence of SP, Sopore, in 2010, resulting in the residence being partially damaged.
It is also alleged that he committed the killing of two CRPF personnel in Pattan and the snatching of their service rifles in 2010.
As per Delhi police, he was also involved in a case FIR of PS Sopore relating to fire upon the patrolling party of police at Bough, Sopore, in 2011.
He, along with his associates, was also involved in the killing of one police constable, Mohd Shahfi Lone, in 2011, Delhi police stated.
He, along with his other associates, was also involved in an IED blast at Police Station Sopore, in which one police personnel, Morifat Hussain of PS Sopore, was killed in 2011, Delhi police said.
It is also alleged that he was involved in a Grenade attack on PS Sopore, which involved Ishfaq Kana and Saleem Beig in 2011.
Police said that he was also involved in a grenade-throwing incident at the CRPF stationed in the SBI Complex in Hathishah, in which many civilians got injured.
He was also involved in a grenade-throwing incident at the BSNL office in Sopore, J&K and in a grenade-throwing incident at Chankhan Chowk, Sopore, J&K, Delhi police said.