Incriminating financial documents seized
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 25: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted searches at multiple locations in Kashmir in a terror funding case linked with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) during which several incriminating financial documents and electronic gadgets were recovered.
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The searches were conducted in several areas of Srinagar and Shopian districts as part of the agency’s crackdown linked to alleged terror activities. One of the raids was conducted at Jamia Siraj Ul Uloom in Imamsahib in Shopian. The Centre had earlier banned this institution over alleged terror links and anti-national activities.
Another NIA team also searched the residence of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shahzada Aurangzeb in the Molu Chitragam area in Shopian district.
The raids were carried out jointly by teams of the NIA, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
A statement issued by the agency said that it conducted searches at three locations in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in a terror funding case linked with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) organisation. Click here to watch video
“The searches, conducted at three locations in Srinagar and Shopian districts of Kashmir, led to the recovery of several incriminating financial documents and electronic gadgets suspected to be related with the activities of JeI and its various trusts/associations in J&K.
“The NIA has been probing the separatist and secessionist activities of JeI, declared an unlawful association under the UA (P) Act, as part of its investigation in the case RC-03/2021/NIA/DLI,” the statement said.
“NIA’s investigations so far have revealed that JeI was actively involved in collecting terror funds and fuelling terrorism in the Valley and other parts of India. It was engaged in collecting funds domestically and internationally in the name of donations for charity and welfare activities such as health and education. It was diverting such funds towards violent and secessionist activities, and also channelling them to proscribed terrorist organisations such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) others through well-organised networks of cadres,” it added.
The statement said that the JeI terror conspiracy further involved radicalisation and recruitment of impressionable Kashmiri youth as new members (Rukuns) for carrying out secessionist activities.
“NIA is continuing with its investigation in the case in a bid to end the outfit’s secessionist activities and dismantle the terror network operating in J&K,” the statement said.
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