NIA conducts searches at multiple locations in fourteen districts of J&K in Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) terror funding case
New Delhi, August 9
The NIA alongwith J&K police and CRPF conducted searches at 56 locations of J&K in connection with Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) terror funding case.
The searches were conducted at Srinagar, Budgam, Ganderbal, Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora, Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama, Kulgam, Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar and Rajouri of J&K.
The case was registered by NIA in February this year in pursuance to order from Ministry of Home Affairs relating to separatist and secessionist activities of JeI, an unlawful association under the UA(P) Act, even after its proscription in February 2019.
The members of the organisation have been collecting funds domestically and abroad through donations particularly in the form of Zakat, Mowda and Bait-ul-Mal purportedly to further charity and other welfare activities but these funds are instead being used for violent and secessionist activities.
The funds raised by JeI are also being channelised to proscribed terrorist organisations such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and others through well organised networks of JeI cadres. JeI has also been motivating impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members ( Rukuns) in J&K to participate in disruptive secessionist activities.
The searches conducted included the premises of office bearers of the proscribed association, its members and also offices of trusts purportedly run by JeI. During the searches today, various incriminating documents and electronic devices were seized from the premises of the suspects.
The NIA is further investigating the case.
