Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 15: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted raids across Kashmir against Over Ground Workers, hybrid militant and militant sympathizers operating in Kashmir.
The raids were conducted at 13 locations across Kashmir in Anantnag, Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian and Budgam districts during which incriminating documents were recovered.
The raids started early in the morning and the NIA sleuths were accompanied by the police and Central Reserve Police Force and it lasted for several hours.
The NIA in a statement said that it conducted a series of raids in Anantnag, Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian and Budgam districts of Kashmir, and seized incriminating material documents.
It said that NIA launched extensive searches at 13 locations of sympathizers, cadres, hybrid militants and OGWs linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of several proscribed Pak-backed militant organisations, including Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda.
“The raids were part of the ongoing investigations of NIA in the militant conspiracy case, involving the activities of OGWs and cadres in support of various newly-launched outfits, such as The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF, among others,” he said.
“Besides militant and violent activities, these cadres and workers had been found involved in collection and distribution of sticky bombs/magnetic bombs, IEDs, funds, narcotics and arms/ammunition,” he said.
NIA investigations had further revealed that Pak-based operatives were involved in delivery of arms, ammunition, explosives, narcotics etc. to these cadres and workers in the Kashmir valley via drones. “Social media platforms were also being widely used by the operatives across the border to connect with OGWs and cadres in Kashmir,” the NIA statement said.
NIA had registered the case (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) suo motu on 21st June 2022. The matter related to conspiracy and plans, hatched physically as well in cyberspace, by these proscribed militant organisations.
“The conspirators aimed to unleash violent militant attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms etc, as part of a larger conspiracy to commit acts of terror and violence by radicalising local youth and mobilising and deploying Over Ground Workers. In connection with the investigation of this case, since the beginning of this month, NIA has conducted more than 70 searches in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” read the statement.
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