Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday swooped down on multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in the Pakistan-backed terrorist conspiracy case, the anti terror agency said.
The searches, being conducted at a total of 12 locations, were continuing till late in the evening.
While 11 of these locations were located in the Kashmir valley- 8 in Pulwama district, one each in Kulgam, Anantnag and Budgam districts, one was under way in district Poonch in Jammu.
The NIA said the searches were carried in a case RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU related to the hatching of a conspiracy, both physical and in cyberspace, and plans by proscribed terrorist organisations to execute violent terrorist attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms.
The plans are part of a larger conspiracy by the terrorist groups to commit terror acts in association with local youths or overground workers in order to create communal disharmony in J&K.
The outfits involved in the conspiracy were identified as Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, besides others.
NIA had registered a suo motu case on June 21, 2022 about the terrorist conspiracy.
The NIA spokesperson said searches on Tuesday were also being carried out in the premises of cadres and hybrid overground workers linked with the affiliates and offshoots of these organisations, operating under pseudo names such as “The Resistance Front (TRF)”, “United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (UL J&K)”, “Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH)”, “Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF)”, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others.
“Initial investigations by the NIA indicated that these workers and cadres were involved in collection and distribution of sticky bombs or magnetic bombs, IEDs, cash, narcotics and small weapons. These weapons, bombs, narcotics etc were being pushed on to the Indian soil by PaK-based handlers and commanders of proscribed terrorist organisations using drones to the terrorists active in the Kashmir valley,” the spokesman added.
The NIA had conducted similar multiple searches in the said terror conspiracy case at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir on June 24, last year.
The searches, conducted then in the districts of Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama, Anantnag, Budgam and Kathua, had led to the seizure of incriminating material and digital devices.
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