The National Investigation Agency, which was asked to probe the circumstances leading to the arrest of Liyaqat following conflicting versions by Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police, submitted a preliminary report which suggested that the J-K police was not informed before his arrest along the Indo-Nepal border on March 20, official sources said.
While the Delhi Police claimed that he was a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist, its Jammu and Kashmir counterpart insisted that he was one of those who had exfiltrated in 1990s and had returned to India to surrender under the rehabilitation policy of the state government.
However, it is not immediately known as to what the NIA says in its report on the Delhi Police's claims that it had foiled a 'fidayeen' strike' in the capital ahead of Holi with Liyaqat's arrest.
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