Poonch woman detained as NIA raids multiple locations across J&K in militancy case

The raids are going on in Awantipora, Pulwama, Anantnag, Srinagar, Jammu and Poonch in connection with its probe in a case registered last year to unearth criminal conspiracy for carrying out terrorist and subversive activities hatched by the cadres and Overground Workers of various proscribed organizations and their affiliates or off-shoots.

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday detained a woman in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir during raids at multiple locations across the union territory in a militancy case, sources said. It is learnt that the NIA sleuths started the raids at at least 12 locations across the union territory on Tuesday morning. As per local inputs, the searches are underway in Awantipora, Pulwama, Anantnag and Srinagar in the Kashmir valley.

In Jammu region, the NIA sleuths launched the raids in Jammu and Poonch districts, sources said. In Poonch district, sources said that the NIA detained a woman identified as Shanaz Akhater, a resident of Khanater in Poonch district.The raids are being conducted in connection with its probe in a case registered last year to unearth criminal conspiracy for carrying out terrorist and subversive activities hatched by the cadres and Overground Workers of various proscribed organizations and their affiliates or off-shoots, operating under various pseudo names, at the behest of their Pakistani commanders' handlers.

The raids were underway at the time this report was filed. It was not immediately revealed whether any arrested has been made during the raids so far. Pertinently, the latest raids come less than a week after the NIA raided the office of jailed human rights activist Khurram Parvaiz in central Kashmir’s Budgam district in connection with the alleged NGO-terror funding case.

A team of NIA sleuths conducted searches at the office of Khurram's NGO Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) at Dandoosa area of Budgam district in central Kashmir. Khurram, who is the program coordinator of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) and chairperson of Philippines-based NGO Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) was arrested in the alleged NGO terror funding case on Mar. 22 this year. Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj, who worked with the JKCCS in the past, has also been arrested in the case.