Jamaat-E-Islami Terror Funding Case: NIA Carries Out Searches Across J&K

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) immediately carried out searches at 16 areas throughout Jammu and Kashmir as a part of its probe into the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) terror funding case. In a press release, the NIA mentioned that the searches have been carried out on the premises of JeI members and supporters at 16 areas which included 11 areas within the Baramulla district and 5 within the Kishtwar district.

 

JeI has been discovered finishing up terror funding actions in Jammu and Kashmir, even after being declared an illegal affiliation below the UA(P) Act on twenty eighth February 2019. NIA had filed a chargesheet within the case in Special Court on twelfth May 2022 towards 4 accused. It had earlier registered a suo motu case within the matter on fifth February 2021.

 

Several incriminating supplies and digital gadgets have been seized through the searches and have been being examined for extra clues within the case. NIA investigations to date have revealed that JeI (J&Okay) members had been amassing funds domestically and from overseas by way of donations, significantly within the type of zakat, mowda and bait-ul-mal, in addition to for purported charitable functions, such because the promotion of schooling and well being.

The funds have been, as an alternative, getting used for violent and secessionist actions in J&Okay. They have been additionally being channelled to proscribed terrorist organisations, equivalent to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and others by way of well-organised networks of JeI cadres.

 

Further, as per the investigations, JeI was additionally engaged in motivating the impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members (Rukuns) in J&Okay for finishing up violent, disruptive and secessionist actions.

 

Previous investigations by the NIA had revealed that one of many 4 arrested accused, recognized as Javaid Ahmad Lone, had been soliciting funds and organising conferences within the identify of JeI, J&Okay. He had been delivering hateful anti-India speeches and exhorting individuals to make donations at these conferences.  Along with Aadil Ahmad Lone, he had additionally acquired firearms and ammunition with ulterior motives from the opposite two accused, recognized as Manzoor Ahmad Dar and Rameez Ahmad Kondu.