Srinagar, May 02: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 12 locations in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as part of its investigation into a case filed last year to unearth criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist and subversive activities..
According to an NIAspokesman, the searches continued till late in the evening at a total of 12 locations. While 11 of these locations were in the Kashmir valley (8 in Pulwama district, 1 each in Kulgam, Anantnag, and Budgam districts), and one was underway in Poonch district inJammu..
The spokesman said the case (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) related to the hatching of a conspiracy, both physical and in cyberspace, and plans by proscribed terrorist organisations to execute violent terrorist attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms.
“The plans are part of a larger conspiracy by terrorist groups to commit terrorist acts in association with local youths/overground workers in order to sow communal discord in J&K.” “Among the terrorist organisations involved in the conspiracy were Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, and Al-Qaeda,” he claimed.
The spokesman said searches were also being carried out in the premises of cadres and hybrid overground workers linked with the affiliates and offshoots of these organisations, operating under pseudo names such as “The Resistance Front (TRF)”, “United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (UL J&K)”, “Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH)”, “Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF)”, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others.
“Initial investigations by the NIA indicated that these workers and cadres were involved in collection and distribution of sticky bombs or magnetic bombs, IEDs, cash, narcotics and small weapons,” he said.
The spokesman said these weapons, bombs, narcotics etc were being pushed on to the Indian soil by PaK-based handlers and commanders of proscribed terrorist organisations using drones to the terrorists active in the Kashmir valley.
It is pertinent mentioning here that theNIA had conducted similar multiple searches in the said terror conspiracy case at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir on 24th June last year. The searches, conducted then in the districts of Srinagar, Baramula, Pulwama, Anantnag Budgam and Kathua, had led to the seizure of incriminating material and digital devices. NIA had registered a suomotu case on 21st June 2022 about the terrorist conspiracy.
Earlier on April 26, NIA conducted raids at an NGO office of jailed Khurram Parvaiz in central Kashmir’s Budgam district in connection with terror-funding cases.
The raids are being conducted as part of the probe agency’s investigation into terror funding, he said.
SIA Jammu raids house of female separatist leader
The State Investigation Agency (SIA) raided the home of female separatist leader Yasmeen Raja in Pampore town of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, on Tuesday.
On the orders of the Court of the 3rd Additional Judge Jammu, police officials conducted searches in connection with a case registered at police station Gandhi Nagar in 2022.
“The searches were conducted at the house of Yasmeena Raja regarding the case involving Babu Singh and in this regard, a formal FIR vide number 73/2022 under sections 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 38, 39, 40 UAP 120B, 121 stands registered at Police Station Gandhi Nagar Jammu,” he said.
During the searches, two cell phones of Yasmeen Raja were seized by SIA Jammu in the presence of witnesses.
