The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) conducted searches on Monday in 12 locations across four districts of Kashmir as part of its investigation into the alleged conspiracy of newly-floated offshoots of various proscribed Pakistan-backed terrorist outfits to destabilise Jammu & Kashmir.
The searches were conducted in Kulgam, Bandipora, Shopian and Pulwama, covering the residential premises of “hybrid” terrorists, who carry out attacks and then slip back to their routine lives, overground workers linked with the offshoots and affiliates of the banned terrorist outfits, and those of sympathisers and cadre.
The agency seized several digital devices during the exercise. The investigation is related to a case registered by the NIA on June 21, 2022. The newly floated offshoots have been identified as The Resistance Front, United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind, Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others.
