Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed was named on Monday in a fresh chargesheet in connection with the April 2025 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district.

In a supplementary chargesheet filed before a National Investigation Agency special court in Jammu, the anti-terror agency charged Saeed in his individual capacity and also as chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliate, The Resistance Front.

He has been charged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the agency said in a statement.

Saeed has also been accused of “waging war against India and hatching a conspiracy from across the border”, it added.

The agency said that Saeed’s name was added to the chargesheet after it collected supporting evidence of his role as well as “Pakistan’s conspiracy” in the April 2025 attack.

In the main chargesheet filed in December 2025, the NIA had named seven persons including Pakistani handler Sajid Jatt of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliate The Resistance Front.

The Pakistan-based organisations were also charged as one legal entity for their role in planning, facilitating and executing the attack.

The chargesheet also named three Pakistani terrorists who were killed by the Indian security forces during a security operation codenamed Mahadev on July 28. They were identified as Faisal Jatt alias Suleman Shah, Habeeb Tahir alias Jibran and Hamza Afghani.

In June 2025, the agency arrested two men, Parvaiz Ahmad Jothar and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, for allegedly harbouring the terrorists who carried out the attack. They had also been named in the December chargesheet.

Saeed has been in jail in Pakistan since 2019 on multiple charges of terror financing along with other leaders of the banned terrorist outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. He is also a United Nations-designated terrorist and has a $10 million bounty on him.

He is wanted in India for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.

In 2023, New Delhi had asked the Pakistan government to extradite Saeed.

The terror attack at Baisaran on April 22 left 26 persons dead and 17 injured. The terrorists targeted tourists after asking their names to ascertain their religion, the police said. All but three of those killed were Hindu.

Written by Sara Varghese. Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.

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