Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 25: After getting ‘important leads’ regarding designs of radical groups active in Jammu and Kashmir, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is going to conduct more raids on the second-rung cadre of the banner Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) to completely smash its network at the grassroots.
Earlier on August 8, the NIA had conducted raids as many as 56 locations in14 districts of Jammu and Kashmir on residences, premises, and other locations of JeI leaders and activists.
The raids were conducted after getting reports that despite a ban imposed JeI activists were indulging in the collection of donations that were being used for violent and secessionist activities and were motivating the youth of Kashmir to indulge in subversive activities.
On August 8, the NIA had detained the district president of JeI Kishtwar and recovered a large number of incriminating documents, electronic devices, and mobile telephones from his possession.
As per a news agency, a fresh set of searches would be conducted on the premises of JeI cadres and their supporters across Jammu and Kashmir any time next week.
“During questioning of some detained leaders of JeI, the NIA has got new leads and further course of action is a part of the ongoing campaign to plug all financial channels of the banned outfit”, reports said and added, “Over a dozen JeI cadres and suspects were examined for over a week at the agency headquarters here and more than five suspects are still being questioned”.
“The NIA is now engaged in ‘building up’ the case as the suspects being questioned are among those JeI cadres whose residential premises were raided by the NIA sleuths during its August 8”, the news agency reported.
In a massive crackdown on all secessionist organizations, the Home Ministry had banned the Jammu and Kashmir-based group, Jamaat-i-Islami (JeI), as an unlawful association in 2019. This action was taken within a couple of days after the Pulwama terror attack on February 14, 2019.
While banning JeI, the government made it clear that the group was indulging in activities that were prejudicial to internal security and public order and had the potential of disrupting the unity and integrity of the country.
The Union Government observed that the JeI was in touch with terror outfits and supported extremism and terrorism in Jammu, Kashmir, and elsewhere. Several members of the group were detained or arrested in a crackdown post-Pulwama terror attack. |
