Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 4: In connection with the Jamaat-e-Islami terror funding investigation, which the agency has been looking into since 2021, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) conducted raids at 16 locations around Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
In the ongoing operation, numerous NIA teams searched 11 places in Baramulla and five in the Kishtwar region of the Union Territory, working closely with the Central Reserve Police Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
The homes of people connected to the outlawed separatist organisation Jamaat-e-Islami and those engaged in militancy are among the locations the NIA is searching.
In 2021, the NIA filed a First Information Report (FIR) naming Jamaat-e-Islami and its cadres in a case involving the funding of terrorism.
In accordance with the Unlawful Actions (Prevention) Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs banned the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir in the early months of 2019 due to its suspected anti-national and subversive actions.
The MHA had stated in its notification then while placing a ban on the outfit that the separatist organisation is suspected to be engaged in anti-national and subversive activities in the country and is in close contact with militant outfits.
After the terrorist incident in Pulwama on February 14, 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 40 CRPF soldiers, the security forces initiated a crackdown on separatist forces and arrested numerous leaders and cadres of the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir.
