SIA Kashmir launches massive valley-wide search operation in sleeper cell module case

Srinagar, Oct 08: Continuing its relentless efforts to crackdown the sleeper cell module, the State Investigation Agency carried out extensive searches at 08 locations across 07 districts across the Kashmir valley today, officials said.

In a press statement, an SIA spokesperson stated that "The searches were conducted as part of an ongoing investigation of case FIR No. 01/2025 of Police Station CI/SIA Kashmir. The case is related to the sleeper cell module operating in the valley at the behest of terrorist commanders of proscribed terrorist organisations of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad. The module is used for spreading secessionist propaganda thereby radicalizing and recruiting the youth into the terror fold."

He said the search operation was conducted simultaneously across 07 districts across the valley from all the three ranges i.e., North, Central and South Kashmir. During the raids, substantial incriminating materials have been seized, and the suspects have been rounded up for further questioning.

He stated that preliminary investigation has clearly brought out the active engagement of these entities in a terrorist conspiracy aimed at propagating and furthering anti-India narratives aimed not only at challenging the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India but also at inciting disaffection, public disorder, and communal hatred.

The searches highlight the continued and unrelenting efforts of the State Investigating Agency to ensure that the whole of the module is dismantled & with aim to strike at roots of the terror ecosystem, the spokesperson said.