National Investigation Agency searched six locations across Jammu province on Saturday in the Pakistan-backed conspiracy to spread terror in the region. Extensive searches were conducted in Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts of Jammu province by NIA teams in the case relating to the conspiracy by banned terrorist organisations and their offshoots to carry out violent attacks with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms in Jammu and Kashmir.
The searches have led to the seizure of incriminating material including digital devices, and documents from premises linked with hybrid terrorists, Overground Workers, sympathisers and cadres linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of proscribed terrorist outfits. These include Laskhar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Badr, and Al-Qaeda.
NIA had registered a suo moto case on 21st June 2022 to dismantle the terror network operated by these outfits, as well as their newly launched offshoots, such as the Resistance Front, United Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwa-ul-Hind, Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others.
As part of its investigations into the case, banned terrorist organisations planned to disturb the peace and communal harmony in Jammu and Kashmir by radicalizing local youth and mobilizing overground workers.
