SNS KASHMIR
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 10 :
Today (10.10.2021), NIA conducted searches at 08 locations in Srinagar and Anantnag districts and arrested (i) Tawheed Latief @ Limon r/o Mughal, Karahagar, Chattabal Srinagar, J&K; ii) Suhail Ahmad r/o Solina Payeen Shergari Srinagar and iii) Afshan Parvez r/o Anzimar near Gondal Masjid, Khanyar, Srinagar in case RC-14/2021/NIA/DLI.
- NIA had received information that proscribed terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has hatched a conspiracy to radicalize and recruit impressionable Muslim youth in India to wage violent Jihad against the Indian state and in order to execute its nefarious plan an organized campaign has been launched over the cyber space which is supplemented by on ground terror financing activities. ISIS terrorists operating from various conflict zones along with ISIS cadres in India, by assuming pseudo- online identities, have created a network wherein ISIS related propaganda material is disseminated for radicalizing and recruiting members into ISIS fold.NIA had registered a case FIR No. RC-14/2021/NIA/DLI dated 29.06.2021 and taken up the investigation. NIA had earlier arrested four accused persons in the case.
- Investigation has further revealed that the arrested accused were associated with Pakistan and Afghanistan based foreign ISIS operatives. Certain other associates of arrested accused based in Kashmir are involved in on-ground and online activities of ISIS, including in content creation and translation of India centric ISIS propaganda magazine Voice of Hind.
- Searches in the case today led to recovery and seizure of a number of incriminating documents and digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop, hard disks etc.
- Investigation in the case continues.