The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted searches at three suspected locations in Jammu, Doda, and Handwara in a terror funding case.
As per an official statement cited by local media reports, the searches were conducted after the agency suspected a cross-border digital nexus working in the region to fuel terrorism and destabilise the peace in Jammu and Kashmir.
The statement further reads, search operations also targeted efforts to identify people inciting youth against the country, thereby threatening national security.
Though security forces have managed to successfully bring down the militancy number to a single digit in the past five years but terrorists are making the numbers by increasing the intensity of attacks on civilians.
A classic case of which has happened in Pahalgam, though the assailants of that case have still not been apprehended by the agencies.
It further reads, “Searches are part of an ongoing investigation under FIR No. 12/2022, under Sections 18, 38, and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, along with Sections 120B, 121, and 121A of the Indian Penal Code, registered at Police Station CI-SIA Kashmir.
“These searches yielded vital evidence, marking a breakthrough in exposing the clandestine financial networks that keep the pot of terrorism boiling in Jammu and Kashmir,” it reads.
The team of investigators has seized electronic devices expected to aid the SIA in identifying and apprehending co-conspirators and other accomplices of the people linked to anti-national activities.
Jammu and Kashmir SIA remains one of the crucial parts of the overall security apparatus in the UT.
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