Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Even as Union Home Ministry has banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for anti-national activities in 2019, the radical organization is still collecting funds from different parts of the country as well as from abroad in the name of social work.
JeI has been found carrying out terror funding activities in Jammu and Kashmir, even after being declared an unlawful association under the UA(P) Act on 28th February 2019.
Further, as per the investigations conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), JeI was also engaged in motivating the impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members (Rukuns) in J&K for carrying out violent, disruptive, and secessionist activities.
Previous investigations by the NIA had revealed that some persons had been soliciting funds and organizing meetings in the name of JeI, J&K. They had been delivering hateful anti-India speeches and exhorting people to make donations at these meetings.
NIA had filed a chargesheet in case (RC03/2021/NIA/DLI) in Special Court, Patiala House, New Delhi, on 12th May 2022 against four accused.
It had earlier registered a suo motu case in the matter on 5th February 2021. NIA investigations so far have revealed that JeI (J&K) members had been collecting funds domestically and from abroad through donations, particularly in the form of zakat, mowda, and bait-ul-mal, as well as for purported charitable purposes, such as the promotion of education and health. The funds were, instead, being used for violent and secessionist activities in J&K.
They were also being channeled to proscribed terrorist organizations, such as Hizbul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and others through well-organised networks of JeI cadres.
As reported earlier, the NIA on Thursday conducted searches at multiple locations in a case related to separatist and secessionist activities of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI).
The searches were conducted today at the premises of JeI (J&K) members and supporters, at 16 locations, including
11 in District Baramulla in Kashmir valley and the remaining 5 located in District Kishtwar in Jammu region.
Several incriminating materials and digital devices were seized during the searches and were being examined for more clues in the case. |
