The J&K’s State Investigation Agency (SIA), constituted in November last year, on Sunday carried out its first multiple raids outside the Union Territory (UT) in a terror–funding case and identified six people and their locations who have been “in constant touch with a Pakistan–based mastermind”.
“Technical evidence and banking transactions have established the identities of three people with locations in Delhi, one person with location in Faridabad and two persons in Anantnag, UT of J&K. The technical evidence confirms that they are in constant touch with the Pakistan–based mastermind,” the SIA said.
On the basis of investigation and corroborated by technical evidence, it was revealed that a terrorist mastermind, whose name is being withheld for operational reasons and confidentiality of information giving person, of the Lashkar–e–Taiba (LeT), based in Pakistan, has been facilitating and providing financial assistance to its cadres and associates to promote and further terrorist activities in the Union Territory and other parts of country, the SIA said.