The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at five locations in southern Shopian and central Budgam districts in connection with Al- Qaeda case of Lucknow UP.
An NIA spokesman said the NIA sleuths today conducted searches at five locations in Shopian and Budgam districts of Kashmir in connection with investigation of NIA Case RC-02/2021/NIA-LKW (Al- Qaeda Case Lucknow, UP).
He said during the searches, large number of incriminating documents and digital devices have been seized.
Further investigation in the case is going on, the spokesman said.
The case, according to NIA spokesman pertains to Umar Halmandi, an alleged Al-Qaeda operative, who along with other accused persons, had been “radicalizing and recruiting vulnerable persons for AQIS (Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent) and trying to raise Ansaar Gazwatul Hind (AGH) to carry out militant acts for which they had already arranged arms and explosive substances.