NIA conducts fresh raids in Jammu and Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out searches in three different locations of Jammu and Kashmir, in a case related to radicalizing, motivating and recruiting youths of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan based militant organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

Srinagar (Jammu-Kashmir): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches in three different locations of Jammu and Kashmir, in a case related to radicalizing, motivating and recruiting youths of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan based militant organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

The search operation was carried out in collaboration with J&K police and CRPF personnel. A senior NIA official told ETV Bharat, "This case pertains to radicalising, motivating and recruiting of the youth of J&K to effect violent activities in J&K and rest of India by Sajjad Gul, Salim Rehmani and Saifullah Sajid Jutt, commanders of LeT and TRF. Four persons have been arrested in this case so far".

During the search, authorities recovered incriminating materials and seized digital devices. In another development, NIA conducted searches at multiple locations in Kashmir in a case relating to the recovery of IED from Bhatindi area of J&K. The NIA raided the residence of Aijaz Ahmad Wani, a tailor by profession and a resident of the Barapather area of Batamaloo in Srinagar. Five mobile phones were seized from his residence, officials said, adding that the agency also searched the house of Faizan Mushtaq Bhat, a student in Sir Syed Abad area in Batamaloo and seized one mobile phone from his residence.

In the Baghi Mehtab area of Srinagar, sleuths of NIA searched the residential house of Imran Ahmad Khan son of Mohammad Rafiq Khan. In the Dalgate area, NIA raided the rented residence of Bilal Ahmad Malik who is a lab-technician by profession at CD hospital Srinagar. He is a resident of the Khul Noorabad area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam.

Similarly, in south Kashmir’s Konibal Pampore area, NIA raided the house of Arif Ahmad Rather son of Habibullah Rather who is a plumber by profession. In Anantnag district, the NIA team raided the houses of Ghulam Rather son of Abdul Gaffar Rather and Abdul Rasheed Dar son of Mohammad Ramzan Dar, a resident of Matipora Mattan. In north Kashmir, the NIA team raided the house of Irfan Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Majeed Mir, a resident of Darpora in the Bomai area.

Similarly, the probe agency conducted searches in the residential houses of Ghulam Hassan Nijar son of Azam Najar, a resident of Kupwara and Wasim Ahmed Mir son of Ghulam Nabi Mir, a resident of Lone Harrie Kralpora in northern Kupwara district. "During the searches conducted today, incriminating materials and digital devices have been seized from the premises of suspects in the case," another NIA official said.

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