JAMMU, Dec 12: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted raids at 19 locations across eight States/Union Territory in the country including Jammu and Kashmir in connection with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror conspiracy case.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the NIA sleuths conducted raids in four districts including Reasi (Jammu division), Baramulla, Budgam and Anantnag (Kashmir division).
Sources said in Reasi district, the NIA teams searched premises of certain Over Ground Workers (OGWs) who have been involved in conspiracies to promote terrorism in association with JeM cadre.
Incriminating documents, digital devices etc have been recovered from the premises.
JeM terrorists have been involved in a series of terror activities across Jammu and Kashmir. Majority of their cadre operating in J&K is from Pakistan and very few terrorists are the locals, the sources said.
However, some OGWs have been supporting the Jaish cadre in their operations, they added.
An NIA statement said several incriminating documents, electronic devices including mobile phones, pen drives, CDs, hard disks etc. were seized during the searches carried out at multiple locations in the States of Assam, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, J&K, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
The searches, relating to the case RC-13/2024/NIA/DLI, were conducted at the premises of suspects/close aides of an accused Sheikh Sultan Salah Uddin Ayubi alias Ayubi, a Jaish-e-Mohammad operative who was arrested on account of his incriminatory role in the case. Ayubi was taken into custody in October this year for disseminating propaganda material associated with JeM and radicalising and recruiting youth into the Jamaat outfit inspired by JeM.
The locations at which the searches were conducted today were Goalpara (Assam), Aurangabad, Mumbai, Amravati (MH), Jhansi, Bareilly, Deoband, Saharanpur (UP), Sitamarhi (Bihar), Hooghly (West Bengal), Baramulla, Reasi, Budgam, Anantnag (J&K), Dungarpur (Rajasthan) and Mehsana (Gujarat).
Further investigations are continuing in the case, the statement said.
