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Gazi Abbas Shahid
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Kashmir News: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday launched a massive crackdown against “hybrid” terrorists and Overground Workers (OGWs) of Pakistan-backed terror groups in Kashmir, carrying out raids at nine places across the Valley, including Srinagar city.
“In a massive crackdown in the Jammu and Kashmir terror conspiracy case involving Pakistan-backed banned terrorist organisations and their offshoots, the NIA raided nine locations across Kashmir,” a NIA spokesman said in an official statement.
The NIA spokesman said digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents were seized during the raids conducted on the premises of hybrid terrorists and OGWs linked to the newly formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terror outfits such as the Laskhar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda among others.
He added that the premises of sympathisers and cadres of these organisations were also searched extensively by NIA sleuths.
#WATCH | National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at nine locations in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in a case linked to terror activities.
Visuals from a raid in Srinagar. pic.twitter.com/XFbotAaDeZ
— ANI (@ANI) April 22, 2024
According to the federal agency, the case is related to a terror conspiracy involving plans by terrorist organisations and their newly floated offshoots to unleash violence in Jammu and Kashmir by using sticky bombs, improvised explosive devices and small arms.
The NIA teams raided the properties of sympathisers and cadres of these terrorist groups and conducted elaborate searches as part of its investigation in the case registered by the anti-terror agency suo motu on June 21, 2022.
The country’s premier anti-terror agency said the terror outfits, backed by “Pakistan-based masters and mentors”, have been hatching a conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir to disturb peace and communal harmony in the erstwhile state.
Jammu and Kashmir: NIA conducts raids across Kashmir Valley, targeting over a dozen locations in Srinagar district in connection with a terror conspiracy case. Suspected terrorists allegedly in contact with Pakistani terror commanders. pic.twitter.com/XbSRYFLavb
— IANS (@ians_india) April 22, 2024
The NIA said these newly-formed offshoots of proscribed terror groups, are involved in radicalising local youths and mobilising overground workers in the union territory in a bid to carry out their nefarious designs.
The outfits include The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others, the agency said, adding that all of these groups are affiliated with the banned terrorist organisations and were floated as frontal outfits to carry out the nefarious agenda of the main militant groups
“The digital devices and other data recovered during the searches are being scrutinised to expose and dismantle the conspiracy,” it said.
(With PTI inputs)
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