NIA raids 9 locations in J&K

Srinagar, Apr 22:  In a massive crackdown in Jammu and Kashmir terror conspiracy case involving Pakistan-backed banned terrorist organisations and their offshoots, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday raided nine locations across Kashmir.

The NIA officials said that several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents were seized during the raids, conducted at the premises of hybrid terrorists and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits including Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, and Al-Qaeda.

They said that the premises of sympathisers and cadres of these organisations were also searched extensively.

The NIA officials said that the NIA teams cracked down on these properties and conducted elaborate searches Monday morning as part of its investigation in the case RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU, registered by the anti-terror agency suo moto on June 21, 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.

Backed by their Pakistan-based masters and mentors, these outfits have been conspiring, in both physical and cyberspace, to carry out terror acts aimed at disturbing the peace and communal harmony in J&K by radicalising local youth and mobilising OGWs.

The outfits include The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, and People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF).

All of them are affiliated with the banned terrorist organisations and were floated as frontal outfits to carry out the nefarious agenda of the main terror groups after those groups were banned by the Centre.