The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in the Pakistan-backed terrorist conspiracy case.
The searches were conducted at 12 locations in the Kashmir valley yesterday. The case is related to the hatching of a conspiracy and plans by proscribed terrorist organisations to execute violent terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms.
The plans are part of a larger conspiracy by the terrorist groups to commit terror acts in association with local youths and overground workers in order to create communal disharmony in Jammu and Kashmir. The terrorist outfits involved in the conspiracy were identified as Laskhar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, besides others.
NIA said, searches were also being carried out in the premises of cadres linked with the affiliates and offshoots of these organisations, operating under pseudo names such as the Resistance Front, Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers and others. The initial investigations by the NIA indicated that these workers and cadres were involved in collection and distribution of sticky bombs or magnetic bombs, IEDs, cash, narcotics and small weapons.
These weapons, bombs and narcotics were being pushed on to the Indian soil by PaK-based handlers and commanders of proscribed terrorist organisations using drones to the terrorists active in the Kashmir valley.