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The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur
The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur

How the Pulwama Case Was Cracked

Rahul Pandita
 Dedication

For Ma, whom I will meet again

by the Sind river in Kangan
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again
– ‘Brahma’, Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Table of Contents

Dedication
1. The Man with Shaky Hands
2. A Key Numbered 1026
3. The Burly Man in Bahawalpur
4. Balakot
5. ‘The Army of Mohammed’ in South Kashmir
6. Getting Ghazi Baba
7. The Dwarfish Merchant of Death
8. The Mobile Phone
9. The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur
The Jaish Poison Ivy
Author’s Note
Copyright
 1. The Man with Shaky Hands

Pulwama, South Kashmir. 14 February 2019.

The blue car wobbled slightly over the potholed road of Hajibal in Pulwama
district. A few minutes later, at 3 p.m., it crossed the small bridge over the
Jhelum river. The driver, Shakir Bashir, a young man in his early twenties,
looked at his only co-passenger, Adil Ahmed Dar, who sat next to him. Dar,
almost the same age as the driver, looked straight ahead; he was reciting
something in a low tone that the driver recognized as verses from the
Koran.
Shakir stopped after crossing the bridge. Then he got down and walked to
the other side of the car. His friend also got down, and they exchanged
seats. Dar drove the car ahead.
By 3.10 p.m., they could see the national highway in front of them that
connected the Kashmir Valley to the rest of India.
Dar took a right turn and kept driving on the narrow link road that ran
parallel to the highway. After driving a mile or so, they halted at a point
from where they could take a U-turn and get on the highway.
Both men got down again and stood facing each other. Dar’s hands were
shaking, which he tried to control. He took off his electronic wristwatch that
he wore at all times and gave it to his friend.
‘This is something to remember me by,’ he said. ‘Keep me in your
prayers.’
‘May Allah be with you,’ said Shakir. They hugged. Dar sat back in the
car, leaving his friend behind. As he turned the key, he patted his jacket
pocket, checking for the pistol inside. His friend waved to him; he watched
the car speed up on the highway towards Srinagar.
 •

In his bus, Constable H. Guru of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
was reminded of his wife, Kalavathi – they had married only six months
ago.
Guru’s bus was part of a convoy that had started from Jammu early that
morning at 3.30 a.m. Convoys carrying military personnel from Jammu to
Srinagar, around 300 kilometres apart, always commenced their journey in
the wee hours of the morning. This was to ensure that the stretch from
Qazigund, from where the Kashmir Valley began, to Srinagar, could be
covered before darkness fell, after which security forces became more
vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
The CRPF convoy was bigger than usual this morning; it consisted of
seventy-eight vehicles, mostly buses, carrying 2,547 personnel. It had
snowed for more than a week, due to which the Jammu–Srinagar highway
had been closed. So a week’s worth of soldiers were being ferried in one go.
The transit camps in Jammu had been overflowing with soldiers – like Guru
– from all over India, headed for their duty stations in the Kashmir Valley.
After marriage, Guru had begun construction of a new house. About a
fortnight ago, he had gone home to spend time with his family in
Karnataka’s Mandya district. He had reported back on duty three days
earlier, on 11 February, but had to wait in Jammu till the highway was
cleared of snow and the transport services could resume.
Earlier that day, Guru had spoken to his mother. And now he wanted to
speak to his wife as well. Guru took out his mobile phone and dialled
Kalavathi. The phone kept ringing, but she did not answer. She was busy
with some household chore.
Guru, 33, had joined the CRPF in 2011. His first posting was in one of the
Maoist-affected areas in Jharkhand in east India, and he had been
transferred to Kashmir a year ago, in 2018.
 In the mid-2000s, when the CRPF had taken over from the Border
Security Force (BSF) as the main paramilitary force fighting Islamist
militants in Kashmir, the situation was way better than in 2018. The left-
wing extremist (LWE) areas in central and eastern India, on the other hand,
where the CRPF fought Maoist guerrillas, had become a nightmare from the
mid-2000s. The poorly trained paramilitary soldiers who had little idea
about the terrain in those parts were no match for the highly motivated
guerrillas who knew the area well and were experts in improvised explosive
devices (IEDs), using these to target the soldiers to devastating effect. In the
worst-ever attack on security forces, the Maoists in April 2010 had
triggered off a blast and then engaged a CRPF party in a fierce gun battle,
killing seventy-five of them.
It was the biggest casualty in any theatre of insurgency in India. The
weather in these parts was humid, and the condition inside the barracks was
poor. Malaria was rampant, and scores of soldiers became prey to it. Back
then, a CRPF soldier would have preferred Kashmir to LWE areas. In
Kashmir there were very few targeted attacks on the forces, and after years
of experience, the police and the CRPF had become adept at handling stone
throwers.
But around 2015 onwards, while the situation had improved significantly
in LWE areas, in Kashmir it had worsened drastically. The forces were
again getting targeted like they had been in the 1990s, when the insurgency
was at its peak in the Valley. Terrorist attacks increased in frequency, and
many soldiers lost their lives in these. The situation turned particularly
volatile after security forces killed Burhan Wani, the young Kashmiri
commander of the terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen in South
Kashmir in July 2016.
At the start of the Kashmir Valley, right after the CRPF convoy crossed
the Jawahar tunnel and entered Qazigund, sixteen buses were replaced with
armoured vehicles. Usually, there are enough of these to carry every soldier,
but this time the number of personnel in the convoy was much more than
normal. The bulletproof vehicles accommodated as many soldiers as they
could, and the rest continued their journey in ordinary buses.
As the convoy began to move from there, Constable Vasudev from
Telangana, who was travelling in the same bus as Guru and had got off to
relieve himself, hopped back in what he thought was his bus but turned out
to be another one. There was hardly any space in this one, but Vasudev
requested an assistant sub-inspector, R.K. Pandey, to move a little and
squeezed himself next to him.
By this time, the road opening party (ROP) of the CRPF was, as usual, in
place along the highway. As convoys move from one place to another in
Kashmir, the ROP keeps a check on attempts to plant explosives underneath
roads to blow up vehicles. It also stops the lateral movement of vehicles
from smaller roads into the path of the convoy till it crosses that particular
stretch. The movement of vehicles already on the highway was allowed.
Meanwhile, inside Guru’s bus, bearing the registration number HR49F-
0637, number five in the convoy, Head Constable Sukhjinder Singh, 32,
recorded a video on his mobile phone and WhatsApped it to his wife,
Sarabjit Kaur, in Tarn Taran, Punjab. Singh had joined the force in 2003 and
was to retire in 2022; he planned to settle in Canada afterwards.
Singh had made a call to his family that morning. Speaking to his elder
brother, Singh inquired about his health and said he would call again that
evening. He had become a father a year ago and had taken off in January for
his son’s first Lohri, a festival celebrated widely in Punjab. As Sukhjinder
left his village to join duty back in the Valley, he, like Guru and many
others, had to wait in Jammu’s transit camp before he could be moved to his
duty post in Kashmir.
Singh was on one of the front seats. In the video he sent to his wife, the
mobile camera turns left, showing a soldier dozing off on another seat. Then
it veers back in front of Singh’s seat where some bags are kept. Then he
flips the camera towards himself, revealing a hardened but handsome face.
Outside, mounds of dirty snow on the side of the road are visible.
The bus was driven by Head Constable Jaimal Singh, 44, who came from
Moga district neighbouring Tarn Taran. He too was returning from leave to
visit his family, particularly to see his six-year-old son, who was born
sixteen years after his marriage. The designated driver of the bus was
someone else, but he had proceeded on leave for his son’s wedding. Jaimal
Singh had been asked to fill in for him.
In the same bus, another constable from Uttar Pradesh, Pradeep Kumar,
was on the phone with his wife, Neerja. He was also joining duty after a
brief leave and had reached Jammu on 11 February.
At 3.15 p.m., the convoy was speeding along on the four-lane highway in
Pulwama in South Kashmir, less than a thirty-minute drive from Srinagar.
In another bus, a little behind in the convoy, Constable Jaswinder saw the
blue car with Dar behind the wheel overtaking them. Less than a 100 metres
from where they were there is a steep rise in gradient and a bend on the
road because of which heavy vehicles slow down a bit. There are no houses
on the right at this spot, only a hillock with a few communication towers
and a wall in front, advertising ‘Pepsi’ and ‘Swift Homes Modular
Kitchens’. There are a few houses on the left, a little below the elevated
highway. Behind these houses, the Jhelum makes its way towards Srinagar
and then onward to North Kashmir, flowing soon afterwards into Pakistan-
occupied Kashmir.
At that point on the highway, as part of the ROP, Assistant Sub-Inspector
Mohan Lal saw the blue car swerve and get between two buses. Something
was not right. He cocked his rifle and began running towards the car.
In CCTV camera footage of that moment, a few buses of the CRPF
convoy – five or six – are seen, with another civilian car, a red one,
following right behind. It must have overtaken other buses in the convoy,
and, as the car begins to overtake one more, a flash is seen erupting a little
ahead of it.
A few seconds earlier Constable Pradeep Kumar, sitting in the bus, had
asked his wife about their younger daughter, Manya, and before she could
answer, the phone got disconnected. She tried calling back, but she found
her husband’s phone was switched off.
The blue car had rammed into the bus, carrying Guru, Sukhjinder, Jaimal,
Pradeep and thirty-five others. Two hundred kg of explosives kept in the
rear of the car exploded as the man with shaky hands pressed a small switch
beneath the car’s steering wheel.
The blast could be heard miles away. In one of the houses below the road,
a few children were playing in their garden. A moment after the deafening
explosion a bloodied torso landed amidst them. Pieces of human flesh,
shards of glass and shrapnel flew all over. The bus was completely
destroyed, killing all thirty-nine soldiers, and Mohan Lal of the ROP. His
friend, standing on duty just 200 metres away, rushed towards him, but Lal
had been blown to pieces by the impact of the blast.
Inside their buses, the CRPF soldiers were left stunned. In some buses, the
personnel kept sitting for more than ten minutes, too shocked to act. They
could hear gunfire but were not sure if it came from terrorists or from some
of their own.
A rescue team of the Indian Army that rushed from their nearby Pampore
base was the first to reach the spot a few minutes later. It found the mangled
remains of four soldiers dangling over the communication towers, on the
other side of the road.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kashmir in its three bloody decades
of insurgency. Kashmir was no stranger to violence. But such a brazen
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