NIA conducts searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir

On Wednesday the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted multiple searches in connection with terror funding at several locations in Jammu and Kashmir. The locations raided by the agency are in the Baramulla district of UT.

As per the sources, raids are linked to the places of suspects who were involved in an ongoing case of misuse of money for fomenting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

The locations are being searched with the assistance of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and other security forces, comprising Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

On April 18, 2019, India decided to indefinitely suspend cross-LoC trade at two points along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. There were reports that it the trade was being "misused" by elements from across the border to smuggle weapons, narcotics, and fake currency.

The LoC trade across Chakan-Da-Bagh in the Poonch district of the Jammu region and Salamabad in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir was intended as a confidence-building measure (CBM) for the population living in Jammu and Kashmir and across the LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok).