The State Investigation Company (SIA) Sunday performed raids at a number of places in South Kashmir in a case associated to sharing of “delicate and strategic details about safety forces and important installations” by messaging apps, the company has mentioned.
The investigating company that’s an equal of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in Jammu and Kashmir has detained a number of individuals and claimed to have seized incriminating materials.
“J&Ok police are conserving a surveillance on the fear associates and over floor staff (OGW) working in Kashmir,” SIA mentioned in an official launch. “Technical intelligence indicated {that a} host of sleeper cells in Kashmir had been in direct contact with their handlers based mostly in Pakistan and had been concerned in conveying delicate and strategic details about safety forces and important installations by way of messaging apps together with however not restricted to WhatsApp, Telegram, Sign and so forth.”
The SIA was arrange in 2021 because the nodal company for “coordinating with the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) and different central companies and shall take such different measures as could also be essential for fast and efficient investigation and prosecution of terrorism associated circumstances”.
On Sunday morning, the investigating company raided 20 totally different places in 4 districts of south Kashmir — Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag — and performed searches in a case registered below numerous sections of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.
“These terror associates had been additionally concerned in on-line radical propaganda on the behest of terrorist commanders of Lashkar-e- Taiba and Jaish-e- Muhammad, impinging upon the nationwide safety and integrity,” the SIA mentioned. “Preliminary investigation has clearly introduced out that these entities are actively engaged in terrorist conspiracy, propagating and furthering anti-India narratives aimed not solely at difficult the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India but in addition at inciting disaffection, public dysfunction, and communal hatred”.
The investigating company mentioned that it has recovered “substantial incriminating supplies” in the course of the raids and detained a number of individuals for additional questioning.
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