The Jammu and Kashmir police’s Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) and State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at Central Jail Srinagar in connection with a terror linked case.
A police spokesperson said the raids were conducted in pursuance to search warrant issued by Court of Special Judge, Designated under NIA Act, Srinagar in case FIR No. 06/2023 u/s 153-A, 505,121 & 120-B IPC r/w 13 & 39 UA(P) Act.
He said the case pertains to a larger conspiracy hatched by proscribed terrorist organizations operating within J&K and across the LoC at the behest of Pakistani agencies, in connivance with their OGWs/supporters/ facilitators/ sympathizers in Kashmir are continuously in process of creating ‘new terror modules’ (gangs) wherein by misusing various social media applications, youths of Kashmir are lured by varied ways and means including radicalization/ instigation/ provocation etc. with the intention to make the youths indulge in unlawful and terrorist activities and also to join terrorist ranks for furthering the activities of these terrorist organizations.
“During investigation of the case, it emerged that mobile phones/ devices are being used in Central Jail, Srinagar premises by under trial terrorists/ OGWs/ supporters/ sympathizers of various proscribed terrorist organizations for communicating with active terrorists and passing on directions so received from the handlers sitting across for furtherance of terrorist activities,” the spokesperson said.
He said the suspects/inmates were in continuous touch with the handlers/ members of terrorist organization(s) across the border thereby receiving directions and passing on to the terrorists active in Kashmir. “As such, the searches were conducted in different blocks/barracks of Central Jail Srinagar wherein incriminating material in the form of SIM cards, mobile phones and other digital devices having bearing on the investigation of the case have been recovered and seized in the case”.
The police spokesperson said the investigating agency is also looking into the aspect of security breach of Central Jail premises as to how these digital communication devices reached inside the jail premises. Facilitators/ collaborators in this act will also become the subject of investigation
The spokesman said the operation was aimed at to uncover crucial evidence, curb illicit activities, prevent the misuse of communication devices, such as mobile phones, within the security zones including the jails and dismantling the terror ecosystem in the UT by not only identifying terrorist associates/ Over Ground Workers (OGWs) supporting and abetting terrorism by misusing the mobile phones but by ensuring legal action against them as envisaged by the law of the land, the spokesperson added.