Intensifying its crackdown on terror networks, Jammu and Kashmir Police's State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at eight locations across seven districts of Kashmir in a sleeper cell module case, allegedly operating at the behest of Pakistan-based terror outfits.

According to the police, the searches were conducted as part of an ongoing investigation of a case registered this year at Police Station CI/SIA Kashmir.
“The case is related to the sleeper cell module operating in the valley at the behest of terrorist commanders of proscribed terrorist organisations of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad,” a police spokesman said.
He said the module is used for spreading secessionist propaganda thereby radicalizing and recruiting the youth into the terror fold.
“Today’s search operation was conducted simultaneously across seven districts across the valley from all the three ranges i.e., North, Central and South Kashmir. During the raids, substantial incriminating materials have been seized, and the suspects have been rounded up for further questioning,” the spokesman said.
The preliminary investigation has clearly brought out the active engagement of these entities in a terrorist conspiracy aimed at propagating and furthering anti-India narratives aimed not only at challenging the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India but also at inciting disaffection, public disorder and communal hatred.
The searches highlight the continued and unrelenting efforts of the SIA to ensure that the whole of the module is dismantled and with aim to strike at the roots of the terror ecosystem, police spokesman added.