The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case under Indian Penal Code sections relating to criminal conspiracy and waging war against India as well as under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against Germany-based operative of banned Sikhs for Justice, Jaswinder Singh Multani and his other associates. The terror outfit is an unlawful association under the UAPA.
“This case relates to criminal conspiracy hatched by Multani with several other pro-Khalistani elements located abroad for radicalising, motivating and recruiting youths in Punjab on ground and online through social media platforms to propagate their ideology with the aim to secede Punjab from the Union of India,” the NIA said in a statement.
The outfit has been involved in raising funds to procure arms and explosives by using smuggling networks in Punjab to revive terrorism in Punjab, it said.
Multani has also been in contact with Pakistan’s covert agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operatives to carry out terror attacks in Mumbai and other parts of India, it further said.
After the registration of the case, requisite actions as per law for the expeditious investigation of the case have been initiated, it added.
Meanwhile, the NIA has conducted searches in Srinagar and arrested an operative of The Resistance Front in a case of radicalising, motivating and recruiting youth of Jammu and Kashmir by Lashkar-e-Tayabba (LeT).
After conducting the search operation on Thursday, the NIA arrested TRF operative Arsalan Feroz alias Arsalan Soub of Zaldagar, MR Gunj, Srinagar.
The case relates to a conspiracy hatched for radicalising, motivating, and recruiting youth of Jammu and Kashmir to effect violent activities in the Valley and rest of India by Sajjad Gul, Salim Rehmani alias Abu Saad and Saifullah Sajid Jutt, Commanders of LeT/TRF.
