Srinagar, Apr 22: Continuing its anti- terror clampdown, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday conducted raids at nine locations in Kashmir in connection with a terror conspiracy hatched by various offshoots of the banned terrorists’ outfits in the region.
The raids were conducted at nine locations in the seven districts of Poonch, Shopian, Pulwama, Baramulla, Ganderbal, Kupwara and Srinagar.
On Monday morning, NIA sleuths along with teams of security forces raided locations including residential premises of hybrid terrorists and Overground Workers (OGWs) associated with the newly-formed affiliates and offshoots of the banned terrorist outfits.
A NIA Spokesman said that a massive crackdown was conducted at premises of several terror outfits’ sympathisers while incriminating material was recovered during the searches. Several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents were seized during the raids.
“The raids were conducted at the premises of hybrid terrorists and OGW’s linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits such as Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc. Premises of sympathizers and cadres of these organisations were also searched extensively,” he said.
The spokesman said that NIA teams cracked down on these properties and conducted elaborate searches this morning as part of its investigation in the case RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU, registered by the anti-terror agency suomoto on 21st June 2022.
“The case relates to a terror conspiracy involving plans by the banned terrorist organisations and their newly floated offshoots to unleash violence in J&K by using sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms etc.”
He said, backed by their Pakistan-based masters and mentors, these outfits have been conspiring, in both physical and cyber space, to carry out terror acts aimed at disturbing the peace and communal harmony in J&K by radicalizing local youth and mobilizing overground workers.
“The outfits include The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), MujahideenGazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. All of them are affiliated to the banned terrorist organisations and were floated as frontal outfits to carry out the nefarious agenda of the main terrorist groups after the latter were banned by the Government of India,” the spokesman said.
He said that the digital devices and other data recovered during the searches are being scrutinized to expose and dismantle the complete conspiracy.
