Investigators from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are aggressively tracking the global supply chain of a US-made GoPro camera that ended up in the hands of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.
Although the agency has already filed a comprehensive chargesheet in the Pahalgam terror case, the high-tech GoPro camera recovered from the terrorists — who were neutralised in an encounter in the Dachigam forests last July — has opened a critical new line of inquiry into the external logistics network supporting terror outfits in Jammu and Kashmir.
Terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir have increasingly been using such cameras to record their ambushes for propaganda and psychological warfare.
Investigators believe that unearthing this specific supply chain could expose vulnerable links or complicit networks that funnel funds, hardware, and tactical gear across borders to anti-India outfits.
The NIA has officially reached out to the US manufacturer GoPro Inc. to ascertain where the device was originally sold.
The firm responded that the device was shipped to an authorised commercial distributor in China.
The probe has now focused on how these devices ended up with Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives carrying out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
Since India does not have a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with China, such cases are taken up through diplomatic channels.
"The chargesheet establishes the immediate operational details of the Baisaran attack, but the wider investigation remains wide open," an official said on the condition of anonymity.
"We are actively investigating the procurement channels to ascertain how a commercial device originating from China was diverted to a banned terrorist organisation operating in Jammu and Kashmir," the official added.
It may be recalled that on April 22, terrorists gunned down 26 people, mostly tourists, in the Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam.
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