Jammu : On Saturday the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at six locations across Jammu province in connection with a Pakistan-backed terror conspiracy case.
Extensive searches were conducted in six districts of Jammu Doda, Ramban, and Kishtwar districts of Jammu province by NIA teams in the case relating to the conspiracy by banned terrorist organizations and their offshoots to carry out violent attacks with sticky bombs, IEDs, small arms, etc., in Jammu and Kashmir, the agency said in a release.
The searches have led to the seizure of incriminating material, including digital devices, documents, mobile phones etc. from premises linked with hybrid terrorists, Overground Workers (OGWs), sympathizers, and cadres linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits. These include Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc., it said.
NIA registered the suo moto case on June 21, 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, the agency added in its release.
As part of its investigations into the case, the NIA has been conducting the crackdowns on various locations in recent months.
Today’s searches were aimed at dismantling the terror network in Jammu Province and scuttling the plans of the banned terrorist organizations to disturb the peace and communal harmony in Jammu and Kashmir by radicalizing local youth and mobilizing overground workers, the NIA added.