SIA carries out multiple raids in Srinagar

Srinagar, Feb 15: The State Investigation Agency (SIA), Kashmir, conducted extensive searches at 18 locations in Srinagar city on Thursday.

The raids were conducted as part of its investigation into a transnational human trafficking case.

Special teams of the SIA, aided by the Police in Srinagar, started the searches early morning.

During the operation, incriminating material and documents including identity cards, bank documents, and registers besides digital devices like mobile phones and computers were seized from various human resource consultancies.

The case pertains to the illegal trafficking of foreign nationals into Indian territory, particularly from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

The investigations reveal that vulnerable foreign nationals were trafficked to India in the guise of providing employment opportunities.

“Upon their transportation to J&K, they were sold to fake and illegal human resource agencies and consultancies, who further exploit them under the garb of job opportunities like domestic helpers, maids, and babysitters, often leading to sexual exploitation,” the investigations revealed. “This nefarious scheme is part of a broader conspiracy hatched by international terrorist organizations in connivance with notorious trans-border human traffickers. These groups facilitate the infiltration of foreign nationals across international borders, concealing their original identities with forged Indian documents with an ultimate aim to establish sleeper cells to aid, execute, or facilitate terrorist acts in J&K.”

The SIA affirmed that the seized material would be meticulously examined so that all the accused are identified and brought to book.

Today’s search operation marks the continuous pursuit of SIA in dismantling the terror ecosystem in J&K and unfurling the sinister agendas of international terrorist organisations operating in the region.