The counter-intelligence wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday performed searches at a number of areas throughout Kashmir in reference to instances linked to terrorism, police stated.
Officers stated the operation was aimed toward uncovering essential proof, curbing illicit actions, stopping the misuse of communication units equivalent to cellphones, and dismantling the phobia ecosystem within the Union Territory by figuring out terrorist associates and overground staff (OGWs) allegedly supporting and abetting terrorism, and likewise guaranteeing authorized motion towards them.
Counter Intelligence Kashmir on Friday stated that throughout the investigation, varied suspects had been discovered utilizing a “particular encrypted messaging software”, which is broadly utilized by “terrorists/handlers” from throughout the border for “coordinating and executing a wide range of terrorist-related actions, together with recruitment into terrorist ranks”.
These customers, police stated, are suspected to be in contact with suspicious entities throughout the border. “As such, sustaining the factor of shock, the searches had been meticulously deliberate and performed,” officers stated.
Throughout raids, “incriminating materials” within the type of SIM playing cards, cellphones, tablets and different digital units which have a bearing on the case have been recovered. Evaluation of the information will comply with and leads which will emerge will turn out to be the premise for additional investigation, a CIK official stated.
Nevertheless, no arrests had been made on Friday.
The searches come as safety companies step up anti-terror operations throughout Jammu and Kashmir within the aftermath of the April 22 terror assault in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Within the assault, 25 vacationers and one native man had been shot useless.
In response, the armed forces carried out Operation Sindoor, concentrating on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This was adopted by days of cross-border tensions and shelling, by which a number of civilians residing in border areas in J&Okay misplaced their lives.