In a case connected to terrorist activities, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched nine locations in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday.
As part of a case the agency filed in 2022, the ongoing raids, which started early on Monday, are being carried out in coordination with security forces at a number of locations connected to people suspected of being terrorists.

Based on particularized information obtained about specific suspects who were living in Srinagar, the anti-terror organization began the searches.

The search was carried out nearly a month after the two suspects in the Kokernag (Jammu and Kashmir) encounter case were charged by the NIA.

The suspects in the case are linked to The Resistant Front (TRF), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), sources said.

Both LeT and TRF are proscribed organisations and have been involved in the continuous instigation and motivation of Kashmiri youth to join the terror outfits in the name of ‘Jihad’.

The two outfits are operating on social media platforms like Twitter, Telegram and Youtube channels to promote their cause and lure unemployed youth to carry out terror activities.

LeT is the largest terrorist group formed in the early 1990s and is actively engaged in reviving the network in the Anantnag area.

It is working through various offshoots in the Jammu and Kashmir region.

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