NIA Conducts Searches at 32 Locations Across J&K aganist Terror Ecosystem
Srinagar, June 05 (KINS): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today carried out extensive searches at 32 locations across the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir as part of its ongoing probe into a terror conspiracy involving Pakistan-backed proscribed terrorist organizations and their affiliates.
The searches were conducted at the residential premises of hybrid terrorists and overground workers linked to terrorist outfits such as The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF, and others. These groups operate as affiliates of banned organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Al-Badr.
The individuals whose premises were searched are under investigation for their suspected roles in supporting terrorist activities, including the facilitation of terrorists, and the procurement and distribution of sticky bombs, IEDs, arms and ammunition, narcotics, and terror funding.
According to NIA investigations, operatives of these outfits, guided by their handlers in Pakistan, have been conspiring to incite violence and carry out terror activities in the region. Their objectives include radicalizing local youth, mobilizing overground workers, and disturbing peace and communal harmony in Jammu & Kashmir.
The probe has revealed that Pakistan-based handlers were actively using social media platforms and encrypted messaging applications to coordinate with and instruct their operatives. Additionally, drones were employed to drop weapons, explosives, and narcotics into the Kashmir Valley.
During the searches, NIA teams recovered two live cartridges, one spent bullet head, and a bayonet. Several digital devices containing significant volumes of incriminating data and documents were also seized. These materials will undergo detailed forensic analysis to uncover further evidence of the conspiracy.
The NIA’s investigation into the case remains ongoing.(KINS)
