Srinagar(J&K): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday raided several locations in the Kashmir valley in connection with a case related to militancy funding, local inputs said. As per the inputs, the NIA sleuths launched the raids at 13 locations across Kashmir valley in the case. Among the places raided were two locations in south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
According to sources, the NIA team raided the house of retired police sub-inspector Mohammad Ahsan Mir in Darbhanga area of Pulwama. A raid was also conducted in Awantipora area of Pulwama district where the houses of Muhammad Imran Wani son of Abdul Ghani and Shizan Baig son of Gulzar Ahmed in Charsoo Awantipora were searched. According to the latest reports, no one has been arrested during the raids so far.
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Earlier, in October, the NIA carried out searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in a terror funding case having links to suspicious activities of Al Huda Educational Trust in the Union Territory. The anti-terror agency conducted searches at locations in the districts of Rajouri, Poonch, Jammu, Srinagar, Pulwama, Budgam, Shopian and Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir.
NIA sources said that the case was related to the suspicious activities of Al Huda Educational Trust in the Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. The case was registered suo-moto by NIA about the funding pattern and activities of Al Huda Educational Trust, which is functioning as a frontal entity for Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, which was declared as an 'unlawful association' under UA(P)A in 2019.
Sources said that NIA's multiple teams carried out these raids based on specific inputs. The raids were conducted in coordination with Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
