The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted a series of raids in various districts against terrorist outfits and their offshoots/affiliates operating in the Kashmir valley to disrupt peace and communal harmony in Jammu and Kashmir by spreading terror, violence and subversion. The agency conducted the searches in Anantnag, Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian and Budgam districts of Kashmir, and seized incriminating materials/documents.
The NIA launched extensive searches at 13 locations of sympathizers/cadres, hybrid terrorists and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of several proscribed Pak-backed terror organisations, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda among others. The raids were part of the ongoing investigations of NIA in the terror 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, the agency said.” Besides terrorist 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,” it said.
NIA investigations had further revealed that Pak-based operatives were involved in delivery of arms/ammunition, explosives and narcotics to these cadres and workers in Kashmir valley via drones.