Multiple raids in Kashmir to trace militant recruiters: J&K Police

Multiple raids were carried out in the Kashmir Valley by the Jammu and Kashmir Police to trace those involved in recruiting locals into militancy

Multiple raids were carried out in the Kashmir Valley on August 1 by the Jammu and Kashmir Police to trace those involved in recruiting locals into militancy. The property of an “active militant” was also attached in north Kashmir’s Kupwara.  

The sleuths of Counter Insurgency-Kashmir (CIK), a special cell of the J&K Police, carried out searches in Ganistan and Zoonipora in Bandipora district; Daangarpora in Srinagar; Dachipora in Shopian; Kanelwan, Bijbehara, Sail, Bargam in Awantipora; and Drabgam, Ayengund and Karimabad in Pulwama.

A police spokesperson said incriminating material, including mobile phones along with SIMs, electronic gadgets and other articles, having bearing on the investigation, have been recovered and seized. 

“A number of suspects have also been detained during the raid. Analysis of the data would follow and leads that would emerge during questioning of the suspects would become the basis for further investigation,” the police said.

The police said the raids were related to proscribed terrorist organisations operating within J&K and across the Line of Control (LoC), and on the behest of adversary agencies. “They, under a well-knit criminal conspiracy hatched with their overground workers, supporters, facilitators and sympathisers in the Kashmir Valley, are continuously in the process of creating new terror modules by misusing social media applications,” the police said.

“Investigation revealed that one Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) module is operating in Kashmir. The main conspirator of this module has been identified as Musadiq alias Adnan alias ‘Doctor’ based at Shakargrah, Pakistan. Other Pakistan-based associates include Abdul Rehman, Riyaz, Umar alias Faizan alias Jigar, and Waseem Noor,” the police said.

“The module has its offshoots spread across J&K. It was using various social media applications to create and upload criminal and malicious content laced with terrorist-secessionist tinge in order to motivate and radicalise the youths of Kashmir to join the terrorist ranks of JeM, with the intention to further its terrorist activities,” the police said.