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As part of its continuing crackdown on terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at multiple locations in a case related to separatist and secessionist activities of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). NIA in a statement said that the searches were conducted 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. 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 in 2019.
NIA said, during the investigations, it was revealed that JeI (J&K) members had been collecting funds domestically and from abroad through donations as well as for purported charitable purposes, such as promotion of education and health. The funds were, instead, being used for violent and secessionist activities in J&K.
They were also being channelled to proscribed terrorist organisations, such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and others through well-organised networks of JeI cadres. Further, as per the investigations, JeI was also engaged in motivating impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members in Jammu and Kashmir for carrying out violent, disruptive and secessionist activities.