The National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched various locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with two cases: the Bathindi IED recovery case and the “”ISIS-Voice of Hind” investigation.
In the ‘ISIS-Voice of Hind’ case, the NIA conducted searches at two sites in Bhatkal, Karnataka, and detained major culprit Jufri Jawhar Damudi. The complaint was filed on June 29 this year in connection with the proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS’s plot to radicalise and recruit naive Muslim youngsters in India in order to wage violent jihad against the country.
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According to the NIA, ISIS terrorists operating from various combat zones, as well as ISIS cadres in India, have established a network by adopting false online identities and disseminating ISIS-related propaganda material in order to radicalise and recruit recruits to the ISIS fold.
On July 11 this year, the NIA conducted various searches in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the same case, arresting three suspects: Umar Nisar, Tanveer Ahmad Bhat, and Rameez Ahmad Lone, all of whom live in the Achabal area of Anantnag district.
“Jufri had formed many pseudonymous IDs on encrypted chat platforms for this purpose, as well as being a member of various ISIS online propaganda channels,” the agency claimed. NIA claimed to have confiscated a large number of digital devices, including mobile phones, hard discs, and SD cards, during previous searches in the ‘ISIS-Voice of Hind’ case.
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The complaint was first filed on June 27 in the Bahu Fort district of Jammu, in connection with the recovery of a five-kilogram IED from a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist in the Bathindi area of Jammu on the same day. The IED was used in the LeT conspiracy to cause an explosion in Jammu. On July 19, the NIA re-registered the case, and three people were arrested in connection with it.
According to the inquiry, Pakistan-based handlers of the banned terror group LeT and its J-K colleagues were preparing terrorist attacks in the Union Territory under the pseudonym ‘The Resistance Front,’ a LeT offshoot, in order to maintain plausible deniability.
