The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday searched 22 places in five states and union territories Jammu and Kashmir in a terrorist conspiracy case. According to the officials, eight places in Bihar, one place each in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, two in Uttar Pradesh and two in Jammu and Kashmir were searched.
Different NIA teams started a search operation simultaneously at these places on the basis of specific actionable intelligence information.
Officials associated with this development told ANI that in close coordination with the state police, the houses and complexes of the persons are being raided, which are suspected of having a connection with anti-national networks. The case recorded under the number RC-1/2025/Nia/Che earlier this year, this case was handed over to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), looking at its severity and possible national security recommendations. Was.
Investigators suspect that the network under investigation is engaged in efforts to spread unrest in the country and destabilize law and order. In recent months, the NIA has accelerated its action on terrorist funding, recruitment modules and sleeper cells active in various fields. Similar nationwide campaigns have been arrested earlier in the past, who are allegedly associated with banned organizations and are associated with their efforts to make the youth radical through online and offline mediums.
Officials said the current raids are aimed at exposing the evidence of a major conspiracy related to the coordination of terrorism, recruitment and coordination with the operators across the border. This campaign is being carried out at a time when the central government has repeatedly stressed its policy of zero-assessment towards terrorism and directed the security agencies to strengthen the preventive action against such dangers.
