Three members of family, including the wife of Hizbul Mujahedeen militant wanted by National Investigation Agency in connection with the Delhi high court blast last year, have been detained in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Tasleema Bi, wife of Hizb militant Shakir Hussain, alias Chotta Hafiz, his mother and father-in-law were detained at Tatapani belt of the district on Friday, officials said.
They were brought to Kishtwar and are being quizzed about the whereabouts of the Chotta Hafiz, they said.
NIA and local police are frantically searching for three most wanted terrorists of Hizbul-Mujahedeen, allegedly involved in the Delhi HC blast case, in Kishtwar mountainous belt and had conducted several operations to trace them but have failed so far.
Apart from Chotta Hafiz, others wanted in Delhi HC blast case are Hizb militants- Junaid and Akhram. The NIA has so far arrested three people, including a teenager in connection with the blast, in which 12 people were killed.
