Terror conspiracy case: NIA raids 6 locations in Jammu div

Srinagar, May 11: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday searched six locations in the Jammu division in a terror conspiracy case that was aimed to revive terror activities in the region.
NIA officials said that searches were conducted in Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts of Jammu province by NIA teams in the case RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU. The searches related to the conspiracy by banned terrorist organisations and their offshoots to carry out violent attacks with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms etc in Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
“During the searches, incriminating material including digital devices, documents etc were seized from premises linked with hybrid terrorists, Overground Workers (OGWs), sympathisers and cadres linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits,” he said.
The NIA official said that these include Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc.
Meanwhile NIA had registered a suomoto case on 21st June 2022 to dismantle the terror network operated by these outfits, as well as their newly launched offshoots.
“That includes 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.”’
He said that as part of its investigations into the case, NIA has been cracking down on various locations in recent months.
“The searches were aimed at dismantling the terror network in Jammu region and scuttling the plans of the banned terrorist organisations to disturb the peace and communal harmony in J&K by radicalizing local youth and mobilizing overground workers,” the official said.
Over the past one week, NIA has also attached 10 properties belonging to members of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) andJeM in different parts of Kashmir region.