SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday raided multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir as part of its efforts to dismantle the terror ecosystem.
Extensive searches were carried at over a dozen locations in Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Awantipora, Anantnag, Handwara, Kupwara and Poonch districts in connection with cases related to members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and overground workers involved in terror conspiracies hatched by proscribed organisations and their affiliates, an NIA spokesperson said.
A large number of documents and digital devices with incriminating contents were seized during the raids and were being scrutinised to track further links of the suspects, the spokesperson said.
The searches also focused on the terror funding case registered by the agency on February 5, 2021, pertaining to collection of funds by JeI (J&K), ostensibly for charitable purposes but used for promotion of terror activities. The NIA had earlier chargesheeted four persons in the case.
The agency had on June 21 last year registered another case against banned terrorist organisations and their newly floated affiliates in connection with conspiracies hatched physically and in cyberspace to carry out violent attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms etc.
Continuing with its investigations in both the cases, the NIA has taken action against some of the recently launched affiliates of terror groups like LeT, HM, JeM, Al-Badr, al-Qaeda etc. Among the affiliates under NIA scrutiny are The Resistance Front, United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind, J&K Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers and PAAF, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the special investigation unit (SIU) of J&K Police carried out raids at multiple locations in Gandoh area of Jammu’s Doda district against local terrorists who had moved to Pakistan and POK in the early nineties and are currently operating from there to revive terrorism in the district.
Doda SSP Abdul Qayoom said the SIU searched houses of Atta Mohd alias Adil Mubassir, Mohd Yasir alias Shahid, Mohd Shafi alias Nadeem Bhai, Amjid Ali alias Rashid and Majid Hussain alias Abu Zahid Saqib. The accused were trying to virtually instigate the local youth to join terror ranks, the SSP said.
(With inputs from Sanjay Khajuria in Jammu)
Extensive searches were carried at over a dozen locations in Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Awantipora, Anantnag, Handwara, Kupwara and Poonch districts in connection with cases related to members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and overground workers involved in terror conspiracies hatched by proscribed organisations and their affiliates, an NIA spokesperson said.
A large number of documents and digital devices with incriminating contents were seized during the raids and were being scrutinised to track further links of the suspects, the spokesperson said.
The searches also focused on the terror funding case registered by the agency on February 5, 2021, pertaining to collection of funds by JeI (J&K), ostensibly for charitable purposes but used for promotion of terror activities. The NIA had earlier chargesheeted four persons in the case.
The agency had on June 21 last year registered another case against banned terrorist organisations and their newly floated affiliates in connection with conspiracies hatched physically and in cyberspace to carry out violent attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms etc.
Continuing with its investigations in both the cases, the NIA has taken action against some of the recently launched affiliates of terror groups like LeT, HM, JeM, Al-Badr, al-Qaeda etc. Among the affiliates under NIA scrutiny are The Resistance Front, United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind, J&K Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers and PAAF, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the special investigation unit (SIU) of J&K Police carried out raids at multiple locations in Gandoh area of Jammu’s Doda district against local terrorists who had moved to Pakistan and POK in the early nineties and are currently operating from there to revive terrorism in the district.
Doda SSP Abdul Qayoom said the SIU searched houses of Atta Mohd alias Adil Mubassir, Mohd Yasir alias Shahid, Mohd Shafi alias Nadeem Bhai, Amjid Ali alias Rashid and Majid Hussain alias Abu Zahid Saqib. The accused were trying to virtually instigate the local youth to join terror ranks, the SSP said.
(With inputs from Sanjay Khajuria in Jammu)
