NIA raids 32 locations linked to terror in Kashmir: Arms and ammunition seized

Jammu,UPDATED: Jun 6, 2025 06:41 IST

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted a series of searches across various locations in the Kashmir valley as part of its ongoing investigation against terror conspiracy by Pakistan-backed terrorist organisations and their offshoots.

A total of thirty-two locations were raided as part of the crackdown. The locations included residences of terrorists and overground workers associated with Pakistan-based terror outfits such as 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, which are affiliated to proscribed terrorist organisations such as Laskar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Al- Badr and others.

The cadres and workers whose premises were searched are under the NIA’s scanner for their involvement in supporting terrorist activities, such as facilitating terrorists, the collection and distribution of sticky bombs/magnetic bombs, IEDs, funds, narcotic substances and arms/ammunitions.

According to the NIA, the above-mentioned organisations, supported by their leaders in Pakistan, have been conspiring terror activities and violence in the valley by radicalising local youth and mobilising overground workers, to disturb peace and communal harmony in Jammu and Kashmir.

Investigations have also revealed that Pak-based operatives were using social media and online apps to facilitate and promote terror. Drones were being used by them to deliver arms and ammunition, explosives, narcotics and other logistics to their operatives and cadres in the Kashmir valley.

Two live cartridges, a fired bullet head and a bayonet have been recovered during the searches.

This apart, several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data and documents have been recovered by NIA during these searches. The recovered items will be scrutinised properly by the investigating agency to unravel the details of the terrorist conspiracy.

Further investigations are still underway in this case.

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