SRINAGAR, India (Diya TV) — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India conducted raids on Monday at nine locations in Kashmir, including Srinagar, in a terror conspiracy case, according to a press release on X.com by the NIA. The case relates to a terror conspiracy involving plans by terrorist organizations and their newly formed offshoots to unleash violence in Jammu and Kashmir by using sticky bombs, improvised explosive devices, and small arms, they said.
“In a massive crackdown in the Jammu and Kashmir terror conspiracy case involving Pakistan-backed banned terrorist organizations and their offshoots, the NIA raided nine locations across Kashmir,” a spokesman of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said.
He said digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents were seized during the raids conducted on the premises of hybrid terrorists and Overground Workers (OGWs) linked to the newly formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Badr, and Al-Qaeda among others. The premises of sympathizers and cadres of these organizations were also searched extensively, the spokesperson added.
The NIA said its teams cracked down on these properties and conducted elaborate searches as part of its investigation in the case registered by the anti-terror agency suo motu on June 21, 2022. Backed by their Pakistan-based masters and mentors, these terror outfits have been conspiring to carry out terror acts aimed at disturbing the peace and communal harmony in J-K by radicalizing local youths and mobilizing overground workers, the spokesperson said.
The outfits include The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF, and others, he added. All of them are affiliated with the banned terrorist organizations and were floated as frontal outfits to carry out the nefarious agenda of the main militant groups, the spokesman added.
The digital devices and other data recovered during the searches are being scrutinized to expose and dismantle the conspiracy, the NIA said. A NIA spokesman said the “massive crackdown” in J&K was terror outfits and their offshoots.
“Several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents were seized during the raids, conducted on the premises of hybrid terrorists and overground workers linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc,” the NIA said.
It said the premises of sympathizers and cadres of these organizations were also searched extensively. “The digital devices and other data recovered during the searches are being scrutinized to expose and dismantle the complete conspiracy,” the NIA said.
The searches were conducted as part of the investigation into a case 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 organizations and their newly formed offshoots to unleash violence in J&K by using sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms, etc,” the NIA said.
“Backed by their Pakistan-based masters and mentors, these outfits have been conspiring, in both physical and cyber space, to carry out terror acts aimed at disturbing the peace and communal harmony in J&K by radicalizing local youth and mobilizing overground workers,” the NIA said.
