Kashmir: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday stated that it clamped down tougher on militant outfits and their offshoots/associates working within the Kashmir valley. In a handout, NIA stated That its company carried out a sequence of raids within the Anantnag, Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian, and Budgam districts of Kashmir, and seized incriminating materials/paperwork and so on.
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According to its spokesman, NIA launched intensive searches at 13 locations of sympathizers/cadres, hybrid terrorists and Overground Workers (OGWs) linked with the newly-formed offshoots and associates of a number of proscribed Pak-backed terrorist organisations, together with Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, and so on.
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The raids have been a part of the continuing investigations of NIA within the terror conspiracy case, involving the actions of OGWs and cadres in help of varied newly-launched outfits, reminiscent of The (*13*) Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&Okay), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF, amongst others, he stated.
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Besides terrorists and violent actions, these cadres and staff had been discovered concerned within the assortment and distribution of sticky bombs/magnetic bombs, IEDs, funds, narcotics and arms/ammunition, he stated.
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NIA investigations had additional revealed that Pak-based operatives have been concerned within the supply of arms/ammunition, explosives, narcotics, and so on. to those cadres and staff within the Kashmir valley through drones. Social media platforms have been additionally being extensively utilized by the operatives throughout the border to attach with OGWs and cadres in Kashmir, he stated.
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NIA had registered the case (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) suo motu on twenty first June 2022. The matter associated to conspiracy and plans, hatched bodily as properly in our on-line world, by these proscribed terrorist organisations.Â
The conspirators aimed to unleash violent terror assaults in J&Okay with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms and so on, as half of a bigger conspiracy to commit acts of terror and violence by radicalising native youth and mobilising and deploying overground staff. In reference to the investigation of this case, for the reason that starting of this month, NIA has carried out greater than 70 searches within the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, reads the assertion.
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