JAMMU AND KASHMIR TERROR FUNDING CASE: NIA CONDUCTS RAIDS AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

In a significant crackdown on cross-Line of Control trade and terror financing cases, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out new raids at numerous places in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), NIA, and the Jammu and Kashmir police all collaborated in the joint operation.

As part of the campaign against terrorism in North Kashmir, the joint team headed by the NIA also carried out searches at other places in Srinagar.

The development occurs a day after the NIA conducted raids at four locations in the Union Territory, including three in Baramulla and one in the Handwara district in the cross-LoC Trade and terror funding case.

The NIA stated that during the raids, which were conducted at the premises of suspected cross-LoC traders and related persons, digital devices and incriminating documents were confiscated.

The case concerns the creation of additional profits through a cross LoC trade mechanism between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), and the use of funds to forment terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.

Two Trade Facilitation Centers (TFCs), one in Chakan-da-Bagh in the Poonch district and the other in Salamabad, Uri in the Baramulla district were used to launch the trade in 2008.

The trade has been halted since April 2019. On December 16, 2016, NIA registered the case suo-moto.