Srinagar, July 19, KDC: State Investigation Agency (SIA), Jammu with the help of District Police and Civil Administration conducted raids at multiple locations in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district
A Police spokesperson in a statement to KDC said raids were conducted in connection with a militancy funding case registered at Police Station Gandhi Nagar vide case FIR No. 73/2022 dated 31.03.2022 under sections U/S 13, 17, 18 UA (P) Act, 1967, with stands transferred to SIA Jammu.
During the raids, a large amount of evidence with regard to smuggling of narcotics from across the border and generating the funds from the same for financing the militant modules, separatists, OGWs, to the families of killed militants have been established, said the spokesman.
Besides, during the course of investigation, the SIA spokesman said that it has been found that the money generated from the narcotic substances has also been used to finance some fake journalists for creating fake/wrong narrative against the Union Territory to support and glorify militancy by using different social media platforms etc. for the indoctrinating and alluring youngsters into militancy.
Moreover, during the raids some people who were found involved in the nexus of ‘narcotic terror’ financing have been arrested under relevant sections of law and investigation is proceeding to establish the involvement of some more people in the nexus who are already under scanner, it said.
It is pertinent to mention here that a sum of Rs. 6.9 lakhs have already been recovered by Police in the instant case the Police spokesperson said adding that more raids are expected in coming days and the efforts will continue to demolish such modules operating in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. (KDC)
