NIA seizes incriminating devices, paperwork at 3 J-Ok places in Jama’at-e-Islami terror funding case

Srinagar, May 25: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at three places in Jammu and Kashmir (J&Ok) in a terror funding case linked with the banned Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) organisation.

According to the assertion, the searches, carried out at three places in Srinagar and Shopian districts of Kashmir, led to the restoration of a number of incriminating monetary paperwork and digital devices suspected to be associated with the actions of Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) and its numerous trusts/associations in J&Ok.

The NIA has been probing the separatist and secessionist actions of Jama’at-e-Islami J&Ok, declared an illegal affiliation beneath the UA (P) Act, as a part of its investigation within the case RC-03/2021/NIA/DLI.

NIA’s investigations up to now have revealed that JeI was actively concerned in gathering terror funds and fueling terrorism within the Valley and different components of India. It was engaged in gathering funds domestically and internationally within the identify of donations for charity and welfare actions equivalent to well being and training. It was diverting such funds in the direction of violent and secessionist actions, and in addition channeling them to proscribed terrorist organisations equivalent to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) others via well-organised networks of cadres, assertion stated.

The JeI terror conspiracy additional concerned radicalisation and recruitment of impressionable Kashmiri youth as new members (Rukuns) for finishing up secessionist actions.

NIA is continuous with its investigation within the case in a bid to finish the outfit’s secessionist actions and dismantle the fear community working in J&Ok, assertion added.