The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at six locations across Jammu province as part of its investigation into a Pakistan-backed conspiracy to spread terror in the region, officials said.
The searches were extensively conducted in Doda, Ramban, and Kishtwar districts of Jammu province by NIA teams in connection with case RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU. “This case relates to a conspiracy by banned terrorist organisations and their offshoots to carry out violent attacks using sticky bombs, IEDs, and small arms in Jammu and Kashmir,” they added.
A spokesperson in a statement said the searches resulted in the seizure of incriminating material, including digital devices and documents, from premises linked with hybrid terrorists, Overground Workers (OGWs), sympathisers, and cadres associated with newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits. “These include Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc.”
“NIA initiated a suo moto case on 21st June 2022 to dismantle the terror network operated by these outfits, as well as their newly launched offshoots, 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, and others.”
As part of its investigations into the case, NIA has been cracking down on various locations in recent months. “Today’s searches were aimed at dismantling the terror network in Jammu Province and thwarting the plans of the banned terrorist organisations to disrupt peace and communal harmony in J&K by radicalising local youth and mobilising overground workers, reads the statement,” it reads. (GNS)
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